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?

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

ByR. F. Kuang

2022 • 1,570 Readers • 560 pages • 4.1

If We Were Villains

ByM.L. Rio

2017 • 742 Readers • 368 pages • 3.9

The Secret History

ByDonna Tartt

1992 • 1,306 Readers • 523 pages • 4

#1 of 3 in The Scholomance

A Deadly Education

ByNaomi Novik

2020 • 794 Readers • 236 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in The Hierarchy

The Will of the Many

ByJames Islington

2023 • 691 Readers • 639 pages • 4.5

A Study in Drowning

ByAva Reid

2023 • 345 Readers • 384 pages • 3.5

#1 of 2 in Alex Stern

Ninth House

ByLeigh Bardugo

2019 • 1,138 Readers • 448 pages • 4

The Starless Sea

ByErin Morgenstern

2019 • 736 Readers • 487 pages • 4

Blood Over Bright Haven

ByM.L. Wang

2023 • 201 Readers • 529 pages • 4.1

#1 of 3 in The Atlas

The Atlas Six

ByOlivie Blake,Roberta Verde(Translator)

2020 • 777 Readers • 453 pages • 3.4

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