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Rowan: “Are you really reading smut at the table? It’s Yulemas, we have guests.”

Aelin: “Shhhh, there’s only one bed at the inn.”

Dorian across the table, also reading: *gasp* “There’s only one bed at the inn.”

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SOMEONE LISTEN: Fiyero = Dorian Havillard at the start of TOG. I SHALL NOT EXPLAIN MYSELF FURTHER

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"I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell." - The Secret History

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The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nybR7e5LFZmd2qTN4kwXE?si=_x_8phdMR-eFc_huez3Btg

You know you’ve fallen hard for a book when you start making a playlist for it

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You know you’ve fallen hard for a book when you start making a playlist for it

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peekaboo! (x)

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Fives: how mad would Rex be of I-

Echo: *not looking up from his reg manual* really mad.

Fives: I didn't even-

Echo: if you have to ask if he'll be mad, he's probably gonna be mad-

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Jyn Erso | from Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy

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PEDRO PASCAL interview with BroBible.

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#for science

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“You’re Asexual, so how could you possibly enjoy watching/reading/engaging with sexual content?!?!”

The same way I’m able to enjoy horror movies without having murdered an entire cabin full of teenagers before, Barbara you pedantic piece of pipe cleaner.

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sandra oh my fucking god.

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She is sleepy,,,,,,