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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8090 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,055,032 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7327 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.08 — 422,002 ratings — published 2017
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5348 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.14 — 492,297 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5328 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 407,593 ratings — published 2019
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4221 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.54 — 281,394 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3195 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.45 — 341,257 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2534 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 224,863 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2502 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.18 — 328,557 ratings — published 2013
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2244 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.61 — 449,729 ratings — published 2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2235 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,914,236 ratings — published 1890
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1882 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 183,999 ratings — published 2023
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1787 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.92 — 28,395 ratings — published 2020
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1627 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.76 — 143,076 ratings — published 2025
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1560 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.70 — 105,664 ratings — published 2023
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1551 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,059 ratings — published 2021
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1364 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 158,816 ratings — published 1988
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1287 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 101,750 ratings — published 2021
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1233 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.33 — 143,245 ratings — published 2023
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1201 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 23,589 ratings — published 2007
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1167 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 133,639 ratings — published 2021
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1161 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.11 — 29,263 ratings — published 2020
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1145 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.88 — 183,891 ratings — published 2018
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1108 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.49 — 82,691 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1086 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.21 — 499,753 ratings — published 2020
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1051 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,052,105 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1009 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,927,730 ratings — published 1818
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 940 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.84 — 236,913 ratings — published 2019
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 920 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.43 — 26,782 ratings — published 2024
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 902 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.48 — 23,901 ratings — published 2024
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 865 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 404,603 ratings — published 2012
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 863 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.59 — 228,519 ratings — published 2023
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 859 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 72,965 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 828 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,545,506 ratings — published 2020
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 818 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.19 — 175,814 ratings — published 2023
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 755 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 133,713 ratings — published 2021
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 747 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.74 — 122,663 ratings — published 2021
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 729 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 434,006 ratings — published 2020
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 694 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.64 — 29,109 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 680 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 870,937 ratings — published 2005
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 646 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.89 — 83,337 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 612 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.29 — 194,578 ratings — published 2020
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 574 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 560,952 ratings — published 2011
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 570 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.35 — 3,596 ratings — published 2023
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 560 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.70 — 28,967 ratings — published 2024
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.21 — 12,321 ratings — published 2013
Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)
by (shelved 541 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 51,318 ratings — published 2024
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 541 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 104,783 ratings — published 2022
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 524 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 277,792 ratings — published 2005
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,349,520 ratings — published 1847
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 490 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,495,857 ratings — published 1897
“Truth doesn’t disappear—it folds itself into something beautiful.”
― The Paper Crane’s Secret
― The Paper Crane’s Secret
“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
