Core Texts

• the secret history, donna tartt
• the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde
• if we were villains, m. l. rio
• babel, r. f. kuang
  • in these hallowed halls

Fits Within The Dark Academia Genre

• madam, phoebe wynne
• the cloisters, katy hays
• the things we do to our friends, heather darwent
• real life, brandon taylor
• the four, ellie keel
• these violent delights, micah nemerever
• my dark vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell

Dark Academia Speculative Fiction (includes magical realism and science fiction)

• bunny, mona awad
• never let me go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• vicious, v.e. schwab
• Catherine house, Elisabeth thomas

Dark Academia Fantasy

• a study in drowning, ava reid
• ninth house, leigh bardugo
• hell bent, leigh bardugo
• the scholomance series by naomi novik
  • a deadly education
  • the last graduate
  • the golden enclaves
• the atlas six series by olivie blake
  • the atlas six
  • the atlas paradox
  • the atlas complex
• academy of villains, ever king
• college of shadows, mark wells (book 1 from Cambridge gothic)
• every exquisite thing, laura steven
• an education in malice, s.t. gibson
• the whispering dark, kelly andrew
• the ravens, kass morgan and danielle paige
• the grimromse girls, laura pohl
• the ravens boys, maggie stiefvater

Young Adult Dark Academia

• the ivies, alexa donne
• ace of spades, faridah àbíké-íyímídé
• lesson in vengeance, victoria lee

Dark Academia Adjacent

• Frankenstein, mary shelley
• the great gatsby, zelda fitzgerald
• changing places, david lodge
• the prime of miss jean brody, muriel spark