The list of recommended Dark Academia books from the Good Reads Class In Session booklist: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2957
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Dec 05, 2025 05:44PM
Good job on this list. It is astonishing to see a new list with 10 voters and the exact number of books - 141 - that are supposed to be on this.
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This is supposed to be a fixed list of 141 books. And yet now that it has 80 voters, it now has 145 books. It is actually somewhat difficult to figure out which books were added in error.Books alphabetic by title - Notable Alumni
A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
A History of Fear by Luke Dumas
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
A Study In Drowning by Ava Reid
All that consumes Us by Erica Waters
An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson
An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson
And He Shall Appear by Kate Van Der Borgh
Babel by R. F. Kuang
Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang
Bunny by Mona Awad
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Death in the Spires by K. J. Charles
Don't Let the Forest In by C. G. Drews
Foster Date Explores the Cosmos by Nash Jenkins
Gita Desai is NOT here to Shut Up by Sonia Patel
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender
Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
It's a Privilege Just to Be Here by Emma Sasaki
Land of No Regrets by Sadi Muktadir
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
Rabbits by Hugo Rifkind
Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
The Beauty of Us by Farzana Doctor
The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
The Girls are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's by Hanna Alkaf
The IT Girl by Ruth Ware
The Laughter by Sonora Jha
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Likeness by Tana French
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H G Parry
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Society for Soulless Girls by Lauren Steven
The Unfortunates by J. K. Chukwu
The Will of the Many by James Islington
Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips
Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
A day in the life of Russell Sprout seems to be on the list in error and voted on by what looks to be fake usersAnd there are apparently 4 of these.
And these have been removed
The Class of 2025A Campus on Fire by Patrick O'Down
A Language of Dragons by S. F. Williamson
A Mastery of Monsters by Liselle Sambury
A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid
Arcana Academy by Elise Kova
Doll Parts by Penny Zang
Enigma by RunNyx
Eternal Ruin by Tigest Girma
Flashout by Alexis Soloski
Fox by Joyce Carol Oates
Heart the Lover by Lily King
History Lessons by Zoe B. Wallbrook
House of Hearts by Skyla Arndt
I am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
Immortal Consequences by J. V. Marie
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Keep Your Friends Close by Cynthia Murphy
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
Little Movements by Lauren Morrow
Lonely Crows by Stephanie Wambugu
Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A Bonnin
Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian
Muscle Man by Jordan Castro
Nightshade by Autumn Woods
Notes on Surviving the Fire by Christine Murphy
Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay
Rules for Ruin by Mimi Matthews
School of Shards by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian
Spellcaster by Jaymin Eve
Tell Them You Lied by Laura Leffler
That Devil Ambition by Linsey Miller
The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand
The Afterdark by E. Latimer
The Belles by Lacey N Dunham
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Dark Library by Mary Anna Evans
The Department by Jacqueline Faber
The Devil's in the Dancers by Catherine Yu
The Dollhouse Academy by Margarita Monitmore
The Girl You Know by Elle Gonzalez Rose
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
The Meadowbrook Murders by Jessica Goodman
The Otherwere Post by Emily J. Taylor
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
The Proof of my Innocence by Jonathan Coe
The Rabbit Club by Christopher J. Yates
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
The Shadow Girls by Nina Laurin
The Wilde Trials by Mackenzie Reed
The Wildelings by Lisa Harding
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
To Have and Have More by Sanibel
Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson
Voice Like A Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson
We Are Villains by Kacen Callender
We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
When We Were Monsters by Jennifer Niven
Incoming InitiatesAn Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole
Atlas of Unknowable Things by McCormick Templeman
Balancing Act by Paula Chase
Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Secrets of the Blue Hand Girls by Rowana Miller
The Book of Autumn by Molly O'Sullivan
The Burning Library by Gilly Macmillan
The Definitions by Matt Greene
The Devil Oxford by Jess Armstrong
The Library of Fates by Margot Harrison
The Mind Reels by Fredrik deBoer
The Ordeals by Rachel Greenlaw
The Scammer by Tiffany D Jackson
With Friends Like These by Alissa Lee
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