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
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A deadly education : a novel
Novik, Naomi
Paper Book
From the leading talent in fantasy, a magical coming-of-age trilogy with a hilarious female anti-hero - a darker more intelligent Harry Potter for adults. ____________ The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the award-winning author of...
The magicians
Grossman, Lev.
Paper Book
Intellectually precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater escapes the boredom of his daily life by reading and re-reading a series of beloved fantasy novels set in an enchanted land called Fillory. Like everybody else, he assumes that ma
If we were villains
Rio, M. L.
Paper Book
Babel or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)
Ebook
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER 'One for Philip Pullman fans' THE TIMES 'This one is an automatic buy' GLAMOUR 'Ambitious, sweeping and epic' EVENING STANDARD 'Razor-sharp' DAILY MAIL 'An ingenious...
My dark Vanessa : a novel
Russell, Kate Elizabeth
Paper Book
An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS AWARD 'A package of dynamite' Stephen King 'Powerful, compulsive, brilliant' Marian Keyes An era...
Ordinary monsters
Miro, J. M.
Paper Book
* THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * 'An enthralling read' GUARDIAN 'A thrilling blend of fantasy and horror, richly imagined and masterfully executed' SFX 'Terrific . . . A book that creeps up on you, wearing brass knuckles...
The starless sea
Morgenstern, Erin
Paper Book
The spellbinding new novel from the Top Ten bestselling author of The Night Circus. 'Radiates with the excitement of someone discovering a magical world within the pages of a book. An enchanting read... an ode to stories and storytelling itself, and the joy of reading'...
The World Cannot Give
Burton, Tara Isabella.
Paper Book
"The Secret History meets The Price of Salt" (Vogue) in this "equal parts dangerous and delicious" (Entertainment Weekly) novel about queer desire, religious zealotry, and the hunger for transcendence among the members of a cultic chapel choir at a Maine boarding...
The Cloisters : a novel
Hays, Katy 1982-
Paper Book
The Secret Historymeets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within a close-knit circle of researchers at New York's famed Met Cloisters museum. 'Beguiling and...
The plot
Korelitz, Jean Hanff 1961-
Paper Book
A thrilling new page-turner from the author of The Undoing, the major series on HBO.
Trust exercise
Choi, Susan 1969-
Paper Book
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. An electrifying novel that speaks directly to the #metoo movement.
The woman in the library : a novel
Gentill, Sulari
Paper Book
The cartographers
Shepherd, Peng
Paper Book
Some places, you won't find on any maps. Others, are only on maps... Nell Young has lived her life in and around maps. Her father, Dr David Young, was one of the most respected cartographers in the world. He's also just been found dead - in...
The Girls Are All So Nice Here
Flynn, Laurie Elizabeth.
Paper Book
'Gone Girl meets Mean Girls and The Secret History' Guardian A darkly intoxicating novel of female friendship and obsession that will keep you turning the pages, perfect for fans of My Dark Vanessa and The Virgin Suicides ----------------- ...

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