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Dark Academia Books
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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7723 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 974,875 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7021 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 386,375 ratings — published 2017
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5062 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.01 — 386,469 ratings — published 2019
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4880 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 423,346 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4065 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.55 — 267,245 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2964 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.47 — 300,253 ratings — published 2019
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2405 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.19 — 310,075 ratings — published 2013
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2371 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.94 — 212,699 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2220 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,813,629 ratings — published 1890
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2147 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.62 — 424,640 ratings — published 2021
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1752 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 171,984 ratings — published 2023
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1724 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.94 — 26,019 ratings — published 2020
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1522 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.53 — 23,079 ratings — published 2021
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1493 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.72 — 92,433 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1314 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 147,424 ratings — published 1988
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1274 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 98,809 ratings — published 2021
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1147 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.12 — 28,350 ratings — published 2020
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1126 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,970 ratings — published 2007
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1126 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.89 — 176,673 ratings — published 2018
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1104 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 125,900 ratings — published 2021
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1047 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.50 — 77,437 ratings — published 2022
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1015 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,021,072 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1010 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,794,762 ratings — published 1818
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 958 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 428,287 ratings — published 2020
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 900 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,949 ratings — published 2019
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 869 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.36 — 91,897 ratings — published 2023
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 856 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 397,674 ratings — published 2012
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 845 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.50 — 21,216 ratings — published 2024
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 826 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 70,041 ratings — published 2022
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 808 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.44 — 21,647 ratings — published 2024
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 796 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,430,727 ratings — published 2020
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 772 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,365 ratings — published 2025
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 686 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.76 — 110,772 ratings — published 2021
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 680 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,550 ratings — published 2021
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 670 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.64 — 28,372 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 663 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 828,062 ratings — published 2005
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 662 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 407,040 ratings — published 2020
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 657 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.20 — 125,648 ratings — published 2023
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 636 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,594 ratings — published 2020
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 609 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.60 — 150,807 ratings — published 2023
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 555 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.31 — 180,710 ratings — published 2020
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 555 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 547,200 ratings — published 2011
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 547 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.36 — 3,205 ratings — published 2023
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 532 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.21 — 12,101 ratings — published 2013
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,280,308 ratings — published 1846
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 497 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,431,474 ratings — published 1897
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 494 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 274,566 ratings — published 2005
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 485 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 98,366 ratings — published 2022
The Lake of Dead Languages (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 464 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,304 ratings — published 2002
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 463 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.68 — 20,815 ratings — published 2024
“I always think of a passage from the Symposium, this allegory about people who started off as two halves of a whole, but then something cut them apart, and they spend their whole lives looking for their other half so they can fit themselves back together. And that's how it feels, it hurts, it's like I lost you before I was born.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.”
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