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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,137,463 ratings — published 1992
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.53 — 290,678 ratings — published 2020
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.07 — 447,459 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,019,355 ratings — published 1890
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.12 — 550,767 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 429,557 ratings — published 2019
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.71 — 213,222 ratings — published 2025
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,425,329 ratings — published 1847
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 348,200 ratings — published 2013
The Incandescent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,121 ratings — published 2025
Hell Bent (Ninth House Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 197,698 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 168,681 ratings — published 1988
The Mary Shelley Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,828 ratings — published 2021
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.12 — 104,717 ratings — published 2021
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 233,824 ratings — published 2020
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.83 — 243,958 ratings — published 2019
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 49,561 ratings — published 2006
Nocticadia (Nocticadia, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 219,101 ratings — published 2023
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.42 — 29,350 ratings — published 2024
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,310 ratings — published 2024
The Library at Hellebore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.05 — 7,724 ratings — published 2025
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,722 ratings — published 2024
Unhallowed Halls (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,487 ratings — published 2025
That Devil, Ambition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.58 — 423 ratings — published 2025
The Devil Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.58 — 4,981 ratings — published 2021
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,989,936 ratings — published 2005
Gothikana (The Verenmore Volumes)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.73 — 130,877 ratings — published 2021
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.68 — 113,461 ratings — published 2023
I Have Some Questions for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.58 — 147,584 ratings — published 2023
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.85 — 474,054 ratings — published 1817
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 281,900 ratings — published 2005
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.19 — 775,842 ratings — published 1934
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,326,399 ratings — published 1963
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 324,623 ratings — published 1962
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,551 ratings — published -19
The Whispering Dark (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.56 — 9,777 ratings — published 2022
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 376,446 ratings — published 2019
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.09 — 453,755 ratings — published 2020
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.88 — 89,508 ratings — published 2020
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 944,622 ratings — published 1850
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,202,153 ratings — published 2011
All's Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 39,341 ratings — published 2021
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,642 ratings — published 2021
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,018,916 ratings — published 1818
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,798,127 ratings — published 1949
Good Girls Lie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,498 ratings — published 2019
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 51,071 ratings — published 2008
Vengeful (Villains, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 141,478 ratings — published 2018
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.06 — 188,053 ratings — published 2008
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,328,581 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