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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,118,167 ratings — published 1992
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.53 — 288,851 ratings — published 2020
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.07 — 440,780 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,994,965 ratings — published 1890
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 539,254 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 421,419 ratings — published 2019
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.71 — 200,406 ratings — published 2025
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,408,873 ratings — published 1847
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 342,955 ratings — published 2013
The Incandescent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,008 ratings — published 2025
Hell Bent (Ninth House Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.10 — 192,421 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 166,287 ratings — published 1988
The Mary Shelley Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,698 ratings — published 2021
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,174 ratings — published 2021
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 231,893 ratings — published 2020
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 242,444 ratings — published 2019
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 49,459 ratings — published 2006
Nocticadia (Nocticadia, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.19 — 208,719 ratings — published 2023
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.42 — 28,780 ratings — published 2024
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,062 ratings — published 2024
The Library at Hellebore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.06 — 7,390 ratings — published 2025
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,243 ratings — published 2024
Unhallowed Halls (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,437 ratings — published 2025
That Devil, Ambition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.59 — 417 ratings — published 2025
The Devil Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.58 — 4,962 ratings — published 2021
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,973,259 ratings — published 2005
Gothikana (The Verenmore Volumes)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 128,883 ratings — published 2021
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.68 — 112,013 ratings — published 2023
I Have Some Questions for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.58 — 146,661 ratings — published 2023
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.85 — 470,733 ratings — published 1817
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 281,044 ratings — published 2005
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 767,074 ratings — published 1934
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,308,939 ratings — published 1963
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,269 ratings — published 1962
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.88 — 148,517 ratings — published -19
The Whispering Dark (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.56 — 9,708 ratings — published 2022
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 368,778 ratings — published 2019
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.09 — 450,068 ratings — published 2020
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.88 — 88,036 ratings — published 2020
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 940,767 ratings — published 1850
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,168,287 ratings — published 2011
All's Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 38,853 ratings — published 2021
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,504 ratings — published 2021
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,996,114 ratings — published 1818
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,745,845 ratings — published 1949
Good Girls Lie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,276 ratings — published 2019
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 51,037 ratings — published 2008
Vengeful (Villains, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 138,784 ratings — published 2018
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.06 — 186,445 ratings — published 2008
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,309,089 ratings — published 1954
“You are in the house and the house in the woods. The woods are in the house. The stairs are in the house. Down the stairs is the hallway, and at the end of the hallway is the ballroom. You are in the ballroom. The ballroom is in the house. You are in the house and the house is in you.
The house is in the woods. You are in the woods.
You can be good. In the house.
You are in the house and the house is in today.
Today is not a moment. Today is not a point. Today is an infinite area. Today is forever. Everything that has happened and will happen is now. Everything that has been and will be is here. And everything is good. Everything is fine.
You are not sad. You are not afraid. You are not hateful. Because you are here. You are here. You are inside. And you are ready.
You are here. You are in. And doesn’t it feel good?
You are in the house and the house is in the woods.
You are in the house and the house is in you.”
― Catherine House
The house is in the woods. You are in the woods.
You can be good. In the house.
You are in the house and the house is in today.
Today is not a moment. Today is not a point. Today is an infinite area. Today is forever. Everything that has happened and will happen is now. Everything that has been and will be is here. And everything is good. Everything is fine.
You are not sad. You are not afraid. You are not hateful. Because you are here. You are here. You are inside. And you are ready.
You are here. You are in. And doesn’t it feel good?
You are in the house and the house is in the woods.
You are in the house and the house is in you.”
― Catherine House