70 books
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95 voters
Dark Academia Books
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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7974 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,009,632 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7244 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.09 — 403,864 ratings — published 2017
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5244 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 397,038 ratings — published 2019
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5172 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 455,136 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4159 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.55 — 274,190 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3124 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.46 — 319,213 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2474 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 218,989 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2469 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.18 — 317,835 ratings — published 2013
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2257 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,852,721 ratings — published 1890
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2212 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.62 — 436,286 ratings — published 2021
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1834 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 177,608 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 — 99,608 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1337 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 152,109 ratings — published 1988
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1312 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,258 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 — 130,046 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 — 79,812 ratings — published 2022
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1061 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,138 ratings — published 2023
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1033 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,032,801 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1018 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,861,415 ratings — published 1818
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1014 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.21 — 452,390 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 — 400,791 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 — 1,475,690 ratings — published 2020
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 747 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.60 — 180,451 ratings — published 2023
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 726 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.20 — 148,660 ratings — published 2023
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 721 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,919 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 — 420,090 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 — 844,268 ratings — published 2005
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 635 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 79,818 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 589 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.30 — 186,662 ratings — published 2020
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 568 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 553,656 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 — 25,312 ratings — published 2024
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 514 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 101,304 ratings — published 2022
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 512 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,305,413 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 — 1,462,225 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
“Of people, of places, surfaces don't interest me. Depths do.”
― The Weight of Tender Things
― The Weight of Tender Things
“The question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it.”
― A Lesson in Vengeance
― A Lesson in Vengeance










