Dark Academia

Dark Academia as a literary genre is a subgenre of the Campus Novel/Academic Novel with Gothic influences, and death always appears in the stories, in some form or another. As an aesthetic, it revolves around learning, the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake, and usually a general interest in the arts, literature, and humanities. ...more

Katabasis
The Secret Book Society
Seduction Theory
Doll Parts
The Executioners Three
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards (Magic and Romance, #1)
Endless Anger (Monsters Within, #1)
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
This Vicious Hunger
Girls of Dark Divine
Arcana Academy (Arcana Academy, #1)
The Bewitching
Immortal Consequences (The Souls of Blackwood Academy, #1)
A Theory of Dreaming (A Study in Drowning, #2)
Silvercloak (Silvercloak Saga, #1)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Katabasis
Piranesi
Babel
On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)
You Belong Here
The Bond That Burns (Bloodwing Academy, #2)
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
The Maidens
Blood Over Bright Haven
My Dark Vanessa
Society of Lies
Seduction Theory
Arcana Academy (Arcana Academy, #1)
Immortal Consequences (The Souls of Blackwood Academy, #1)
The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Maidens by Alex MichaelidesBlack Chalk by Christopher J. YatesIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioThe Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
University Mysteries
41 books — 21 voters
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterPeople Like Us by Dana  MeleDon't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally CarterCross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally CarterOnly the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter
Covers with School Uniforms
248 books — 34 voters

Small Admissions by Amy PoeppelAdmission by Julie BuxbaumWe Regret to Inform You by Ariel KaplanAdmission by Jean Hanff Korelitz500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario
College Admissions in Fiction
28 books — 5 voters
A CLUE LEFT HANGING by C.K. PhillipsPretty Little Liars by Sara ShepardThe Perfectionists by Sara ShepardDangerous Girls by Abigail HaasGet Even by Gretchen McNeil
Cliques & Crime
78 books — 63 voters

The Secret History
If We Were Villains
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Babel
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
Vicious (Villains, #1)
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Maidens
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
These Violent Delights
A Lesson in Vengeance
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
Dead Poets Society

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It was just us - the seven of us and the trees and the sky and the lake and the moon and, of course, Shakespeare. He lived with us like an eighth housemate, an older, wiser friend, perpetually out of sight but never out of mind, as if he had just left the room. Much is the force of heaven-bred posey
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...that means we’re in love,” His eyes were never leaving her lips, “madly so.” The spirits waltzed across the leaves, enclosing two lovers, singing their own melody as the bodies became one.
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