Dark Academia

Dark Academia as a literary genre is a subgenre of the Campus Novel/Academic Novel with Gothic influences, and death always appears in the stories, in some form or another. As an aesthetic, it revolves around learning, the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake, and usually a general interest in the arts, literature, and humanities. ...more

Pink Ink
She Haunts Me Still
Heir of Prophecy
Dreamland
Alchemy of Souls
The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel (The Raven Cycle: The Graphic Novels, #2)
Bound by Fury
A Clash of Carnivores (Mastery of Monsters Trilogy, #2)
The Elements of Dark Academia
Daybreak (Sorrowsong University, #2)
Prince of Swords (Arcana Academy, #2)
Ruinous Ends (The Souls of Blackwood Academy, #2)
The Mortons
The Sea Hides Its Dead
Sisterhood Above All
Alchemised
The Academy (The Academy #1)
Daybreak (Sorrowsong University, #2)
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
Babel
Katabasis
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
The Thoroughbreds (The Academy, #2)
The Witches of Cambridge (The Witches of Cambridge, #1)
Blood Over Bright Haven
Dead Beat (Ninth House Trilogy, #3)
The Maidens
Hell Bent (Ninth House Trilogy, #2)
On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)
Small Admissions by Amy PoeppelAdmission by Julie BuxbaumWe Regret to Inform You by Ariel KaplanAdmission by Jean Hanff Korelitz500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario
College Admissions in Fiction
28 books — 5 voters
Vampire Academy by Richelle MeadMarked by P.C. CastLast Sacrifice by Richelle MeadYoungblood by Sasha LaurensVampire Knight, Vol. 1 by Matsuri Hino
Vampire High School
9 books — 2 voters

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterPeople Like Us by Dana  MeleDon't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally CarterCross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally CarterOnly the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter
Covers with School Uniforms
247 books — 34 voters
Pretty Little Liars by Sara ShepardThe Perfectionists by Sara ShepardDangerous Girls by Abigail HaasGet Even by Gretchen McNeilThey All Fall Down by Roxanne St. Claire
Cliques & Crime
79 books — 43 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëStardust by Neil GaimanMen Without Women by Haruki Murakami
fall book recs to cuddle with
113 books — 9 voters
Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. WeaverThe Belles by Lacey N. DunhamThe World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella BurtonHardly Creatures by Rob Macaisa ColgateZero K by Don DeLillo
Creepy Statue Covers
11 books — 2 voters

The Secret History
If We Were Villains
Babel
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
Vicious (Villains, #1)
The Maidens
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Katabasis
Hell Bent (Ninth House Trilogy, #2)
These Violent Delights
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
A Lesson in Vengeance

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