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The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever
The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.
Dark Academia staples:
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
- Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum
- Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko
Dark academia litfic or contemporary:
- Bunny by Mona Awad
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
- These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
- White Ivy by Susie Yang
- The Cloisters by Katy Hays
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates
- Attribution by Linda Moore
Dark academia thrillers or horror:
- In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
- The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
- Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
- Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
- Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
- They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
- The It Girl by Ruth Ware
- Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:
- Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
- The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- Vicious by V.E. Schwab
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- The Betrayals by Bridget Collins
Dark academia romance:
- Gothikana by RuNyx
- Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
Dark academia YA or MG:
- Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
- Crave by Tracy Wolff
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power
- The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Dark academia miscellaneous:
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
- Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip
the secret history is so wild. like there's a hundred different analysis essays you could write about it and it's meaning and whatnot. but there's also a genius who thinks of elaborate ways to kill someone but didn't know or believe that the moon landing happened. they pull off the murder of their classmate and don't get caught. they try to hit a wasp with a prayer book during said classmate's funeral service. the unreliable narrator does cocaine in a burger king parking lot. said unreliable narrator lives in a hippie's house that has a hole in the roof in a vermont winter and doesn't realize it's literally killing him. the absolute hilarious unhinged energy from this book is overshadowed by a writing style where the most batshit things seem almost mundane. i love it.
have you eroticized the repulsive today? have you applied an element of carnality to what is considered by most to be gruesome, grotesque, and/or monstrous today?
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