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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8234 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,090,258 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7388 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.08 — 432,990 ratings — published 2017
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5520 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 520,193 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5399 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 415,205 ratings — published 2019
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4248 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.54 — 285,716 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3274 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.45 — 357,155 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2577 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 229,002 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2539 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.18 — 336,578 ratings — published 2013
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2265 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.61 — 459,490 ratings — published 2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2253 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,957,384 ratings — published 1890
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1930 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 188,524 ratings — published 2023
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1844 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.73 — 176,746 ratings — published 2025
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1795 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,179 ratings — published 2020
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1597 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.69 — 109,551 ratings — published 2023
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1550 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,320 ratings — published 2021
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1370 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 162,934 ratings — published 1988
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1360 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.31 — 163,412 ratings — published 2023
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1294 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 103,197 ratings — published 2021
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1213 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 24,118 ratings — published 2007
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1165 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 136,073 ratings — published 2021
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1156 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.11 — 29,576 ratings — published 2020
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1147 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.87 — 187,120 ratings — published 2018
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1132 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.20 — 536,070 ratings — published 2020
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1124 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.49 — 84,493 ratings — published 2022
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1057 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,068,614 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1014 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,966,833 ratings — published 1818
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 960 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.57 — 261,211 ratings — published 2023
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 947 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.84 — 240,076 ratings — published 2019
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 945 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.43 — 28,122 ratings — published 2024
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 916 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,647 ratings — published 2024
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 891 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.19 — 194,532 ratings — published 2023
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 862 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 74,190 ratings — published 2022
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 860 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 408,025 ratings — published 2012
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 826 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,589,659 ratings — published 2020
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 779 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 136,431 ratings — published 2021
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 774 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.74 — 126,407 ratings — published 2021
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 747 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.09 — 443,978 ratings — published 2020
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 689 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.64 — 29,483 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 679 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 892,937 ratings — published 2005
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 647 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.89 — 86,005 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 623 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.29 — 199,858 ratings — published 2020
Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)
by (shelved 587 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 60,503 ratings — published 2024
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 586 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 566,264 ratings — published 2011
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 581 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.69 — 30,910 ratings — published 2024
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 572 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.34 — 3,719 ratings — published 2023
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 563 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 107,283 ratings — published 2022
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.21 — 12,428 ratings — published 2013
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 522 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 279,888 ratings — published 2005
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 512 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,383,040 ratings — published 1847
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 492 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,518,834 ratings — published 1897
“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
“I always think of a passage from the Symposium, this allegory about people who started off as two halves of a whole, but then something cut them apart, and they spend their whole lives looking for their other half so they can fit themselves back together. And that's how it feels, it hurts, it's like I lost you before I was born.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
