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Dark Academia Books
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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7649 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 968,854 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6960 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 383,153 ratings — published 2017
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5013 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.01 — 384,449 ratings — published 2019
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4827 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 416,912 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4032 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.55 — 265,789 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2920 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.47 — 296,840 ratings — published 2019
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2382 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.19 — 308,443 ratings — published 2013
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2339 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.94 — 211,370 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2216 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,806,770 ratings — published 1890
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2112 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.62 — 421,823 ratings — published 2021
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1740 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 170,942 ratings — published 2023
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1699 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,768 ratings — published 2020
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1503 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.53 — 22,943 ratings — published 2021
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1356 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.72 — 90,793 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1309 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 146,516 ratings — published 1988
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1270 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 98,512 ratings — published 2021
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1134 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.12 — 28,188 ratings — published 2020
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1122 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.89 — 175,978 ratings — published 2018
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1107 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,792 ratings — published 2007
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1084 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 124,905 ratings — published 2021
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1044 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.51 — 76,971 ratings — published 2022
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1008 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,788,878 ratings — published 1818
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1005 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,018,766 ratings — published 2013
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 941 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 423,160 ratings — published 2020
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 891 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,358 ratings — published 2019
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 851 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 397,012 ratings — published 2012
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 826 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.51 — 20,839 ratings — published 2024
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 823 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 69,709 ratings — published 2022
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 814 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.37 — 87,625 ratings — published 2023
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 792 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.44 — 21,078 ratings — published 2024
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 787 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,421,287 ratings — published 2020
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 677 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.76 — 109,361 ratings — published 2021
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 672 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,876 ratings — published 2021
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 670 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.64 — 28,268 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 657 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 824,883 ratings — published 2005
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 642 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 404,436 ratings — published 2020
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 635 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.20 — 121,232 ratings — published 2023
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 634 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.91 — 75,867 ratings — published 2020
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 601 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,294 ratings — published 2025
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 569 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.60 — 146,207 ratings — published 2023
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 544 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.36 — 3,152 ratings — published 2023
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 543 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 545,868 ratings — published 2011
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 535 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.31 — 179,453 ratings — published 2020
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 526 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.21 — 12,079 ratings — published 2013
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 507 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,276,007 ratings — published 1846
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 498 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,427,500 ratings — published 1897
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 492 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 274,316 ratings — published 2005
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 481 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 97,819 ratings — published 2022
The Lake of Dead Languages (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 464 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,295 ratings — published 2002
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 457 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,975,300 ratings — published 1847
“What defines a romance? All scholars seem to converge on a single point: it is a story that must have a happy ending. And why is that? I say, it is because a romance is a belief in the impossible: that anything ends happily. For the only true end is death - and in this way, is romance not a rebuke of mortality? When love is here, I am not. When love is not, I am gone. Perhaps a romance is a story with no end at all; where the end is but a wardrobe with a false back, leading to stranger and more merciful words.
From an epistemological theory of romance by Dr. Edmund Huber, collected in the Llyrian Journal of Literary Criticism, 199 AD”
― A Study in Drowning
From an epistemological theory of romance by Dr. Edmund Huber, collected in the Llyrian Journal of Literary Criticism, 199 AD”
― A Study in Drowning
“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
