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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7877 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 989,288 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7143 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 394,202 ratings — published 2017
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5176 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 391,461 ratings — published 2019
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5057 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 436,859 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4124 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.55 — 270,395 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3070 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.47 — 308,654 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2441 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.94 — 215,500 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2434 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.19 — 313,369 ratings — published 2013
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2235 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,829,968 ratings — published 1890
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2199 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.62 — 430,242 ratings — published 2021
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1802 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 174,371 ratings — published 2023
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1761 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 26,584 ratings — published 2020
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1545 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.52 — 23,398 ratings — published 2021
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1469 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.71 — 95,866 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1319 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 149,461 ratings — published 1988
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1278 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 99,382 ratings — published 2021
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1171 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,428 ratings — published 2007
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1168 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.11 — 28,669 ratings — published 2020
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1139 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,096 ratings — published 2021
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1131 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.89 — 177,991 ratings — published 2018
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1060 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,871 ratings — published 2025
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1057 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.50 — 78,449 ratings — published 2022
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1023 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,025,730 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1006 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,815,077 ratings — published 1818
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 992 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 437,702 ratings — published 2020
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 975 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.35 — 101,118 ratings — published 2023
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 912 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.84 — 231,107 ratings — published 2019
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 871 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.50 — 22,019 ratings — published 2024
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 861 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 399,079 ratings — published 2012
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 857 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.44 — 22,797 ratings — published 2024
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 843 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 70,710 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 803 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,449,136 ratings — published 2020
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 708 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.76 — 113,920 ratings — published 2021
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 707 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 412,987 ratings — published 2020
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 702 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.23 — 127,939 ratings — published 2021
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 700 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.20 — 136,459 ratings — published 2023
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 685 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.60 — 160,611 ratings — published 2023
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 681 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.64 — 28,561 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 675 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 834,367 ratings — published 2005
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 636 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 77,924 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 575 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.31 — 183,254 ratings — published 2020
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 561 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 550,174 ratings — published 2011
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 555 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.36 — 3,328 ratings — published 2023
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 533 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.21 — 12,148 ratings — published 2013
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 510 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,289,951 ratings — published 1847
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 509 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.68 — 22,756 ratings — published 2024
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 504 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 275,109 ratings — published 2005
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 499 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 99,639 ratings — published 2022
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 496 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,443,584 ratings — published 1897
The Lake of Dead Languages (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 467 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,339 ratings — published 2002
“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
“Of people, of places, surfaces don't interest me. Depths do.”
― The Weight of Tender Things
― The Weight of Tender Things
