What is your favorite dark academia book?

Dark academia has taken the world by storm over the past few years with books such as Novik’s Scholomance series giving us new, darker-tinged magical worlds to fall into. Which is your favorite?

Books10

Answers22

Readers13

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

ByR. F. Kuang

2022 • 1,945 Readers • 560 pages • 4.1

If We Were Villains

ByM.L. Rio

2017 • 937 Readers • 368 pages • 3.9

The Secret History

ByDonna Tartt

1992 • 1,639 Readers • 523 pages • 4

#1 of 3 in The Scholomance

A Deadly Education

ByNaomi Novik

2020 • 953 Readers • 236 pages • 3.9

#1 of 2 in The Hierarchy

The Will of the Many

ByJames Islington

2023 • 866 Readers • 639 pages • 4.5

#1 of 3 in The Atlas

The Atlas Six

ByOlivie Blake,Roberta Verde(Translator)

2020 • 944 Readers • 453 pages • 3.4

#1 of 2 in A Study in Drowning

A Study in Drowning

ByAva Reid

2023 • 424 Readers • 3.6

The Starless Sea

ByErin Morgenstern

2019 • 887 Readers • 487 pages • 4

Blood Over Bright Haven

ByM.L. Wang

2023 • 260 Readers • 529 pages • 4.2

#1 of 2 in Alex Stern

Ninth House

ByLeigh Bardugo

2019 • 1,330 Readers • 480 pages • 4

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