44 books
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29 voters
Dark Academia Books
Showing 1-50 of 10,984
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8154 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,072,550 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7347 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.08 — 427,519 ratings — published 2017
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5448 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 506,022 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5356 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 411,563 ratings — published 2019
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4237 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.54 — 283,628 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3223 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.45 — 349,209 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2551 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 226,936 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2510 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.18 — 332,604 ratings — published 2013
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2251 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.61 — 454,380 ratings — published 2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2241 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,935,670 ratings — published 1890
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 1905 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 186,270 ratings — published 2023
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1788 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,794 ratings — published 2020
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1720 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.74 — 159,472 ratings — published 2025
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1570 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.69 — 107,698 ratings — published 2023
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1545 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,189 ratings — published 2021
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1373 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 160,834 ratings — published 1988
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1293 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.32 — 153,491 ratings — published 2023
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1287 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 102,389 ratings — published 2021
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1202 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 23,845 ratings — published 2007
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1162 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 134,883 ratings — published 2021
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1154 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.11 — 29,412 ratings — published 2020
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1148 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.88 — 185,420 ratings — published 2018
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1119 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.49 — 83,607 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1112 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.21 — 517,461 ratings — published 2020
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1053 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,060,263 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1009 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,947,840 ratings — published 1818
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 941 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.84 — 238,476 ratings — published 2019
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 931 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.43 — 27,623 ratings — published 2024
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 911 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,272 ratings — published 2024
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 910 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.58 — 245,464 ratings — published 2023
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 863 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 406,291 ratings — published 2012
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 861 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.19 — 185,684 ratings — published
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 861 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 73,533 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 828 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,567,931 ratings — published 2020
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 765 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 135,043 ratings — published 2021
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 761 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.74 — 124,558 ratings — published 2021
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 740 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 439,273 ratings — published 2020
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 693 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.64 — 29,264 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 680 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 881,787 ratings — published 2005
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 645 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.89 — 84,768 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 618 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.29 — 197,381 ratings — published 2020
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 575 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 563,761 ratings — published 2011
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 573 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.69 — 30,027 ratings — published 2024
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 570 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.34 — 3,663 ratings — published 2023
Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)
by (shelved 558 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 55,907 ratings — published 2024
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 549 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 106,032 ratings — published 2022
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 545 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.21 — 12,380 ratings — published 2013
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 525 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 278,779 ratings — published 2005
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,366,343 ratings — published 1847
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,507,442 ratings — published 1897
“This girl who was soft at heart, who was both the vast, dark woods and the glorious light of a full moon, who was angry at all the thousand tiny ways she’d been hurt in her life.”
― The Society For Soulless Girls
― The Society For Soulless Girls












