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The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.54 — 279,174 ratings — published 2020
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.09 — 416,188 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,040,198 ratings — published 1992
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,894,860 ratings — published 1890
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 480,427 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 403,721 ratings — published 2019
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,334,799 ratings — published 1847
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 324,729 ratings — published 2013
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.75 — 120,732 ratings — published 2021
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 181,798 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 156,764 ratings — published 1988
The Mary Shelley Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,149 ratings — published 2021
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 101,114 ratings — published 2021
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 235,388 ratings — published 2019
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 48,982 ratings — published 2006
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.77 — 127,327 ratings — published 2025
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.19 — 166,514 ratings — published 2023
The Incandescent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,157 ratings — published 2025
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 25,163 ratings — published 2024
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,801 ratings — published 2024
The Library at Hellebore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.11 — 5,708 ratings — published 2025
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.49 — 23,538 ratings — published 2024
The Devil Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,852 ratings — published 2021
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,892,445 ratings — published 2005
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 103,763 ratings — published 2023
I Have Some Questions for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.59 — 141,786 ratings — published 2023
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.85 — 456,279 ratings — published 1817
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 277,117 ratings — published 2005
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 737,085 ratings — published 1934
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,233,275 ratings — published 1963
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 298,496 ratings — published 1962
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.87 — 144,060 ratings — published -19
The Whispering Dark (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.57 — 9,349 ratings — published 2022
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.88 — 182,499 ratings — published 2018
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.46 — 333,880 ratings — published 2019
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.10 — 429,365 ratings — published 2020
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,046 ratings — published 2020
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 922,894 ratings — published 1850
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,011,065 ratings — published 2011
All's Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,430 ratings — published 2021
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.52 — 23,937 ratings — published 2021
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,906,700 ratings — published 1818
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,502,880 ratings — published 1948
Good Girls Lie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.81 — 25,326 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 223,021 ratings — published 2020
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 50,844 ratings — published 2008
Vengeful (Villains, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,638 ratings — published 2018
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.06 — 181,116 ratings — published 2008
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,214,392 ratings — published 1954
The Lake of Dead Languages (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,436 ratings — published 2002
“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
