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

The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
Seven Deadly Thorns
The Burning Library
The Bookshop Below
The Sacred Space Between
Eternal Ruin (Immortal Dark, #2)
With Friends Like These
The Devil in Oxford (Ruby Vaughn, #3)
I'll Make a Spectacle of You
A Rather Vengeful Accord
Sanctas: Estudio de una mentira
Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
Hazelthorn
Girl Dinner
King Sorrow
Heart the Lover
Alchemised
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Bound
The Academy
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
Katabasis
Piranesi
Babel
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)
Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
Blood Over Bright Haven
The Bond That Burns (Bloodwing Academy, #2)
The Maidens
People Like Us by Dana  MeleTruly, Devious by Maureen JohnsonPrep School Confidential by Kara TaylorPrivate by Kate BrianSeton Girls by Charlene  Thomas
Boarding School Mysteries
133 books — 86 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioKing Street Run by V.R. LingCatherine House by Elisabeth    ThomasBlack Chalk by Christopher J. Yates
Dark academia vibes
43 books — 27 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
7 books — 2 voters


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

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