Dark Academia
If you like your fiction with a side of unsettling campus life, these books are for you! A mix of fantasy, science fiction, horror, thrillers, and realistic fiction, all with a dark academia aesthetic. (Created July 2025)
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When We Were Silent
A Dublin Catholic school’s culture of silence proves deadly. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Bewitching
A graduate student studying an obscure horror author is visited by a haunting of her own. (Kirkus)
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Fox
After the vehicle belonging to the enigmatic new teacher at a boarding school is discovered submerged in the woods near a dead body, the community begins to unravel. (NoveList)
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Jawbone
In Ecuadorian writer Ojeda’s delectable English-language debut, two classmates bond at an all-girls’ Catholic high school over a made-up mythology. (Publishers Weekly)
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Mrs. S
Taking up the antiquated role of "matron" at an elite English boarding school, a woman is unsure of her role, her accent and her body until she has a passionate, illicit affair with Mrs. S, the headmaster's wife, but as summer fades, a choice must be made. (NoveList)
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Voice Like A Hyacinth
In this lush and propulsive gothic outing, Pearson takes the dark academia aesthetic to art school. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
The hidden brutality of academe and the ruthless corporate pursuit of profit have combined into a big ball of wrong in this human fleet of space leeches. But it's a wrong that no one wants to examine too closely, lest they be condemned to life in the Hold, a permanent underclass that mines the asteroids the fleet preys upon. (Booklist)
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Catherine House
Students accepted to the mysterious and prestigious Catherine House agree to give up contact with the outside world for three years in exchange for unimaginable power and influence. (Kirkus)
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Blood Over Bright Haven
Dark academia meets magical realism in this gripping tale of ambition and resistance. (Booklist)
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Providence
An introverted English professor's quiet life gets turned upside down when he falls for a dangerous, enigmatic sophomore. (NoveList)
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