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The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.54 — 286,510 ratings — published 2020
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 435,025 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,097,185 ratings — published 1992
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,966,717 ratings — published 1890
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 525,232 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 416,740 ratings — published 2019
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,389,523 ratings — published 1847
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 338,230 ratings — published 2013
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.72 — 182,956 ratings — published 2025
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.10 — 189,478 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 163,823 ratings — published 1988
The Mary Shelley Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,546 ratings — published 2021
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.12 — 103,506 ratings — published 2021
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 240,638 ratings — published 2019
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 49,352 ratings — published 2006
Nocticadia (Nocticadia, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.19 — 197,915 ratings — published 2023
The Incandescent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,894 ratings — published 2025
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.43 — 28,305 ratings — published 2024
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,783 ratings — published 2024
The Library at Hellebore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.07 — 7,020 ratings — published 2025
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,814 ratings — published 2024
That Devil, Ambition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.59 — 405 ratings — published 2025
The Devil Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.58 — 4,937 ratings — published 2021
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,952,338 ratings — published 2005
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 127,073 ratings — published 2021
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.69 — 110,233 ratings — published 2023
I Have Some Questions for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.58 — 145,471 ratings — published 2023
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.85 — 467,067 ratings — published 1817
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 280,244 ratings — published 2005
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 759,143 ratings — published 1934
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,287,405 ratings — published 1963
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 312,182 ratings — published 1962
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,192 ratings — published -19
The Whispering Dark (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.56 — 9,630 ratings — published 2022
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 360,124 ratings — published 2019
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.09 — 445,638 ratings — published 2020
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 86,504 ratings — published 2020
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 936,249 ratings — published 1850
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,120,121 ratings — published 2011
All's Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 38,264 ratings — published 2021
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,374 ratings — published 2021
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,974,704 ratings — published 1818
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,678,620 ratings — published 1948
Good Girls Lie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,025 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 229,770 ratings — published 2020
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 51,013 ratings — published 2008
Vengeful (Villains, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 136,629 ratings — published 2018
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.06 — 184,903 ratings — published 2008
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,284,144 ratings — published 1954
The Lake of Dead Languages (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,584 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