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Dark Academia Books
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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7960 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,004,073 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7222 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 401,341 ratings — published 2017
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5235 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 395,619 ratings — published 2019
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5153 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 450,030 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4152 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.55 — 273,195 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3116 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.47 — 316,285 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2470 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 218,036 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2460 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.18 — 316,571 ratings — published 2013
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2257 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,845,969 ratings — published 1890
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2214 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.62 — 434,630 ratings — published 2021
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1821 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 176,789 ratings — published 2023
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1771 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 27,049 ratings — published 2020
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1555 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.52 — 23,603 ratings — published 2021
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1492 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.71 — 98,670 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1336 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 151,380 ratings — published 1988
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1287 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 99,912 ratings — published 2021
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1252 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.82 — 83,123 ratings — published 2025
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1177 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,773 ratings — published 2007
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1172 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.11 — 28,894 ratings — published 2020
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1156 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.79 — 129,628 ratings — published 2021
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1139 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.88 — 179,359 ratings — published 2018
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1072 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.50 — 79,443 ratings — published 2022
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1035 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.35 — 110,490 ratings — published 2023
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1034 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,030,759 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1020 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,850,889 ratings — published 1818
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1008 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 447,874 ratings — published 2020
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 923 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.84 — 232,329 ratings — published 2019
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 882 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.49 — 22,588 ratings — published 2024
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 875 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.44 — 23,652 ratings — published 2024
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 865 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 400,331 ratings — published 2012
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 852 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 71,320 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 812 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,468,128 ratings — published 2020
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 740 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.60 — 174,353 ratings — published 2023
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 727 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.20 — 145,650 ratings — published 2023
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 724 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,182 ratings — published 2021
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 720 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 418,163 ratings — published 2020
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 716 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.23 — 129,345 ratings — published 2021
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 684 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.64 — 28,726 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 676 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 841,401 ratings — published 2005
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 637 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 79,320 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 584 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.30 — 185,753 ratings — published 2020
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 565 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.36 — 3,430 ratings — published 2023
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 565 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 552,837 ratings — published 2011
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 542 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.21 — 12,189 ratings — published 2013
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 519 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,753 ratings — published 2024
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 512 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,300,871 ratings — published 1847
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 510 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 100,844 ratings — published 2022
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 508 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 275,727 ratings — published 2005
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 499 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,457,054 ratings — published 1897
The Lake of Dead Languages (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 466 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,383 ratings — published 2002
“She wouldn't understand that magic can be a metaphor, like Ellis said. That magic doesn't have to be magic for it to mean something. That sometimes magic is a salve over a burn, and it's the only way you can heal.”
― A Lesson in Vengeance
― A Lesson in Vengeance
“You are not cursed-you are a reaper. You are the night incarnate, the ferrier of souls. You are the bridge between the living and the dead—a caged bird that's ready to fly. So spread your wings, Signa Farrow, because you are limitless. Spread your wings, and oh, how we'll fly.”
― Belladonna
― Belladonna
