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Dark Academia Books
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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8088 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,053,311 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7324 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.08 — 421,346 ratings — published 2017
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5346 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.14 — 490,912 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5324 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 407,146 ratings — published 2019
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4218 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.54 — 281,138 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3195 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.45 — 340,421 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2530 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 224,672 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2502 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.18 — 328,151 ratings — published 2013
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2243 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.61 — 449,285 ratings — published 2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2237 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,911,964 ratings — published 1890
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1882 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 183,770 ratings — published 2023
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1788 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.92 — 28,356 ratings — published 2020
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1624 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,309 ratings — published 2025
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1564 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.70 — 105,471 ratings — published 2023
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1550 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,036 ratings — published 2021
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1364 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 158,581 ratings — published 1988
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1289 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 101,694 ratings — published 2021
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1232 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.33 — 142,171 ratings — published 2023
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1201 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 23,563 ratings — published 2007
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1166 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 133,483 ratings — published 2021
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1161 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.11 — 29,251 ratings — published 2020
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1145 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.88 — 183,714 ratings — published 2018
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1106 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.49 — 82,580 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1084 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.21 — 496,223 ratings — published 2020
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1050 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,051,372 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1009 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,925,430 ratings — published 1818
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 940 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.84 — 236,750 ratings — published 2019
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 919 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.43 — 26,643 ratings — published 2024
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 902 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.48 — 23,863 ratings — published 2024
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 865 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 404,464 ratings — published 2012
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 862 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.59 — 226,714 ratings — published 2023
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 858 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 72,923 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 828 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,543,020 ratings — published 2020
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 816 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.19 — 174,790 ratings — published 2023
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 752 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 133,569 ratings — published 2021
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 746 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.75 — 122,432 ratings — published 2021
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 727 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 433,444 ratings — published 2020
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 694 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.64 — 29,087 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 680 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 869,877 ratings — published 2005
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 646 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.89 — 83,180 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 612 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.29 — 194,254 ratings — published 2020
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 574 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 560,664 ratings — published 2011
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 571 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.35 — 3,588 ratings — published 2023
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 560 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.70 — 28,839 ratings — published 2024
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.21 — 12,313 ratings — published 2013
Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)
by (shelved 540 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.06 — 50,833 ratings — published 2024
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 540 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 104,667 ratings — published 2022
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 524 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 277,713 ratings — published 2005
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,347,919 ratings — published 1847
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 490 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,494,657 ratings — published 1897
“A human life is a beautiful thing," he said. "You humans.... you feel. You feel so deeply that it consumes you. There were humans I kept a watch over, though I would blink and they'd be fifty, sixty
years older—and the time would come for me to meet them. For the longest time, I pitied them for their short lives. And I admit, Signa, that I have grown more callous with my age. But I have also grown to admire humans. They've such a short time to experience their lives, and so they must feel deeply. They must experience in one life-time things it's taken me an eternity to experience. When I see men like Elijah, rather than feel guilt for what I've done, I remember that he feels sorrow because he loved so deeply. And were I not real, Little Bird, were I not Death, he would never have experienced that love. So which is better? To live forever, or to live and love?”
― Belladonna
years older—and the time would come for me to meet them. For the longest time, I pitied them for their short lives. And I admit, Signa, that I have grown more callous with my age. But I have also grown to admire humans. They've such a short time to experience their lives, and so they must feel deeply. They must experience in one life-time things it's taken me an eternity to experience. When I see men like Elijah, rather than feel guilt for what I've done, I remember that he feels sorrow because he loved so deeply. And were I not real, Little Bird, were I not Death, he would never have experienced that love. So which is better? To live forever, or to live and love?”
― Belladonna
“Sleep crawled on top of me like an affectionate, purring pet-”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
