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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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engirth

(poetic) To surround or envelop ; to engirt.

#engirth

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vapid

offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.

"tuneful but vapid musical comedies"

1. пресный

2. бессодержательный

#vapid

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salient

most noticeable or important.

"it succinctly covered all the salient points of the case"

#salient

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mondegreen

is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning

#mondegreen

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A sentence no matter what

#sentence #words #words i use everyday

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Out and In

Emigrate and Immigrate

Egress and Ingress

#out #in

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Eminent vs Imminent

Eminent means something is famous or respected

Imminent means something is about to happen in the near future

#eminent #imminent

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Imply vs Infer

If you’re the one sharing the information, you’re implying.

If you’re the one receiving information and drawing conclusions, you’re inferring.

#imply #infer

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suzerainty

the right of a country to partly control another

Example: Japan acknowledged Russian suzerainty over the island of Sakhalin.

#suzerainty

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entropy

lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.

entroponetic

#entropy

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onirism

refers to a mental state in which visual hallucinations occur while fully awake.

such as REM

but is more often associated with drug abuse

#onirism

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Whip something Up

to make food or a meal very quickly and easily

#whip up

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soliloquy

an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

"Edmund ends the scene as he had begun it, with a soliloquy"

#soliloquy

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provenance

the place of origin or earliest known history of something

ex."an orange rug of Iranian provenance"

#provenance

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expenditure

the action of spending funds.

ex. "the expenditure of taxpayers' money"

#expenditure

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rest on their laurels

be so satisfied with what one has already achieved that one makes no further effort.

#satisfied with wins