Prompts

What are your favorite dark academia books?

By
@adam
AdamFounder

Fantasy books set in school have a certain allure. That school experience is one we can all relate to. Couple that with learning about a new fantastical world and you get a recipe for a world that feels incredible, but somehow familiar. What are you favorite books set in dark academia? That could mean middle school, high school, college or a special school for only those selected.

The Will of the Many

#1 of 1 in Hierarchy

2023 • 1,191 Readers • 639 pages • 4.5

A Deadly Education

#1 of 3 in The Scholomance

2020 • 1,177 Readers • 236 pages • 4

Ninth House

#1 of 2 in Alex Stern

2019 • 1,645 Readers • 480 pages • 4

The Magicians

#1 of 3 in The Magicians

2009 • 888 Readers • 428 pages • 3.4

Fourth Wing

#1 of 5 in The Empyrean

2023 • 2,677 Readers • 678 pages • 4

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

1997 • 5,440 Readers • 309 pages • 4.3

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

2002 • 2,392 Readers • 560 pages • 4.1

If We Were Villains

2017 • 1,141 Readers • 368 pages • 3.9