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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8407 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,127,232 ratings — published 1992
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7487 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.07 — 443,696 ratings — published 2017
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5697 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 545,014 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5537 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 424,732 ratings — published 2019
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 4299 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.53 — 289,785 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3334 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.44 — 372,514 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2637 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 232,780 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 2590 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 345,247 ratings — published 2013
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2314 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.61 — 469,049 ratings — published 2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2282 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,006,857 ratings — published 1890
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2039 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.71 — 207,150 ratings — published 2025
Hell Bent (Ninth House Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 1998 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 194,589 ratings — published 2023
These Violent Delights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1815 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,956 ratings — published 2020
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1648 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.68 — 112,697 ratings — published 2023
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1562 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,568 ratings — published 2021
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1506 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.30 — 183,855 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1386 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 167,365 ratings — published 1988
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 1314 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,421 ratings — published 2021
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
by (shelved 1239 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.99 — 24,606 ratings — published 2007
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1193 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.20 — 582,251 ratings — published 2020
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1181 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.78 — 138,347 ratings — published 2021
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1165 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.11 — 29,837 ratings — published 2020
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 1155 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.87 — 190,448 ratings — published 2018
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1139 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.49 — 86,121 ratings — published 2022
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1072 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,085,054 ratings — published 2013
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 1031 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.56 — 289,190 ratings — published 2023
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 1014 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,005,728 ratings — published 1818
Nocticadia (Nocticadia, #1)
by (shelved 992 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.19 — 213,707 ratings — published 2023
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 980 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.42 — 29,023 ratings — published 2024
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 970 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.83 — 243,216 ratings — published 2019
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 941 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,470 ratings — published 2024
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 878 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.39 — 75,497 ratings — published 2022
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 861 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 411,486 ratings — published 2012
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 832 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,630,553 ratings — published 2020
Gothikana (The Verenmore Volumes)
by (shelved 807 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.74 — 129,757 ratings — published 2021
The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
by (shelved 794 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 138,944 ratings — published 2021
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 761 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.09 — 451,852 ratings — published 2020
Plain Bad Heroines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 699 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.63 — 29,891 ratings — published 2020
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 693 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 915,276 ratings — published 2005
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 662 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.88 — 88,731 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 651 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,762 ratings — published 2020
Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)
by (shelved 642 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.04 — 67,971 ratings — published 2024
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 623 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.69 — 32,606 ratings — published 2024
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 600 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.02 — 571,273 ratings — published 2011
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
by (shelved 597 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.08 — 87,877 ratings — published 2025
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 585 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.34 — 3,826 ratings — published 2023
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
by (shelved 569 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.11 — 109,552 ratings — published 2022
Black Chalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.20 — 12,546 ratings — published 2013
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 531 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 3.80 — 281,425 ratings — published 2005
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as dark-academia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,416,769 ratings — published 1847
“Don't resent me when I've only just gotten you, please, for I am what makes this world beautiful.”
― Belladonna
― Belladonna
“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
