130 books
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Dark Academia Books
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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7974 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,009,639 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7244 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.09 — 403,870 ratings — published 2017
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5244 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 397,042 ratings — published 2019
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5172 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 455,143 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4159 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.55 — 274,192 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3124 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.46 — 319,220 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2474 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 218,990 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2469 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.18 — 317,836 ratings — published 2013
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2257 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,852,731 ratings — published 1890
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2212 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.62 — 436,289 ratings — published 2021
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1834 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 177,610 ratings — published 2023
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1771 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 27,227 ratings — published 2020
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1552 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.52 — 23,686 ratings — published 2021
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1499 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.71 — 99,614 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1337 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 152,110 ratings — published 1988
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1312 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,269 ratings — published 2025
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1286 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 100,092 ratings — published 2021
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1178 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,890 ratings — published 2007
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1170 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.11 — 28,952 ratings — published 2020
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1153 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.79 — 130,047 ratings — published 2021
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1138 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.88 — 179,785 ratings — published 2018
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1080 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.50 — 79,813 ratings — published 2022
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1061 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,149 ratings — published 2023
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1033 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,032,805 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1018 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,861,428 ratings — published 1818
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1014 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.21 — 452,408 ratings — published 2020
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 922 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.84 — 232,809 ratings — published 2019
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 880 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.49 — 22,762 ratings — published 2024
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 875 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.44 — 23,919 ratings — published 2024
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 862 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 400,792 ratings — published 2012
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 850 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 71,511 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 814 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,475,714 ratings — published 2020
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 747 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.60 — 180,460 ratings — published 2023
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 726 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.20 — 148,670 ratings — published 2023
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 721 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,921 ratings — published 2021
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 721 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.23 — 129,876 ratings — published 2021
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 715 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 420,092 ratings — published 2020
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 682 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.64 — 28,769 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 678 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 844,272 ratings — published 2005
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 635 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 79,821 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 589 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.30 — 186,663 ratings — published 2020
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 568 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 553,657 ratings — published 2011
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 565 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.36 — 3,460 ratings — published 2023
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.21 — 12,205 ratings — published 2013
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 521 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.68 — 25,313 ratings — published 2024
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 514 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 101,307 ratings — published 2022
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 512 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,305,421 ratings — published 1847
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 510 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 275,929 ratings — published 2005
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 495 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,462,234 ratings — published 1897
The Lake of Dead Languages (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 465 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,385 ratings — published 2002
“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
“Despite what the SIS:TUM implies, not everything is a business. Not everything is for sale. There are swathes of potential students with first class minds who can't meet the Faustian deal passed off as tuition fees, so instead of formulating scientific hypotheses or writing the next great masterpiece, they're on zero hour contracts stacking the shelves in supermarkets...”
― King Street Run
― King Street Run












