Dark Academia

🏫 Dark Academia is a subgenre that blends a Gothic aesthetic with a scholarly environment, and often features morally gray characters. A perfect fit for the autumn back-to-school season! 👨‍🏫

Updated July 30, 2025
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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A deadly education A novel.
Novik, Naomi.
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the first book of the Scholomance trilogy, the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. FINALIST FOR THE LODESTAR AWARD * "The dark...
The magicians The Magicians Series, Book 1
Grossman, Lev.
Ebook
Lev Grossman's new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD is out now! The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY "The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of...
My dark vanessa A novel
Russell, Kate Elizabeth.
Ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  "[An] exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power." --The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "A lightning rod . . . brilliantly crafted."--The Washington Post Recommended by The New York Times...
The cloisters A novel
Hays, Katy
Ebook
In this "sinister, jaw-dropping" (Sarah Penner, author of The Lost Apothecary) debut novel from the author of Saltwater, a circle of researchers uncovers a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York...
The woman in the library A novel
Gentill, Sulari.
Ebook
The cartographers A novel
Shepherd, Peng.
Ebook
The rule of four
Caldwell, Ian 1976-
Paper Book
Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old...

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