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The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.54 — 281,847 ratings — published 2020
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 423,243 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,058,497 ratings — published 1992
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,918,521 ratings — published 1890
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 494,944 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 408,593 ratings — published 2019
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,352,804 ratings — published 1847
Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 329,410 ratings — published 2013
Gothikana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 123,060 ratings — published 2021
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.10 — 184,481 ratings — published 2023
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 159,269 ratings — published 1988
The Mary Shelley Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,263 ratings — published 2021
Ace of Spades (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.12 — 101,874 ratings — published 2021
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 237,234 ratings — published 2019
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 49,112 ratings — published 2006
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.75 — 146,449 ratings — published 2025
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.19 — 177,928 ratings — published 2023
The Incandescent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,090 ratings — published 2025
An Academy for Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.43 — 27,095 ratings — published 2024
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,167 ratings — published 2024
The Library at Hellebore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.09 — 6,236 ratings — published 2025
An Education in Malice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.48 — 23,973 ratings — published 2024
The Devil Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,880 ratings — published 2021
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,912,187 ratings — published 2005
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 106,087 ratings — published 2023
I Have Some Questions for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.59 — 143,018 ratings — published 2023
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.85 — 460,056 ratings — published 1817
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 277,924 ratings — published 2005
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 744,817 ratings — published 1934
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,251,403 ratings — published 1963
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 302,800 ratings — published 1962
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,105 ratings — published -19
The Whispering Dark (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.57 — 9,431 ratings — published 2022
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.45 — 342,946 ratings — published 2019
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.10 — 435,171 ratings — published 2020
They Never Learn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 83,669 ratings — published 2020
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 927,283 ratings — published 1850
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,052,018 ratings — published 2011
All's Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 37,049 ratings — published 2021
A Lesson in Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,087 ratings — published 2021
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,932,290 ratings — published 1818
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,562,411 ratings — published 1948
Good Girls Lie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.81 — 25,514 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 225,266 ratings — published 2020
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 50,923 ratings — published 2008
Vengeful (Villains, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,651 ratings — published 2018
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 4.06 — 182,172 ratings — published 2008
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,235,911 ratings — published 1954
The Lake of Dead Languages (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,475 ratings — published 2002
Waking the Moon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-academic)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,463 ratings — published 1994
“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
