#ninth house book

[meraarts]

We see the aviators Gideon wears as anachronistically modern for this archaic world, and Harrow reacts to them accordingly, but we must not forget that they are an ancient artefact, pre-resurrection. For all we feel like they mess with her Ninth image they must actually strengthen it to the other houses. This Ninth cultist is wearing ten thousand year old glasses to block out the light. I dare you to think of something more Ninth than that.

#I’m obsessed with this book series #and the ninth house is so everything to me #they’re insane they’re dying out they’re weird they’re off putting #nobody’s heard from them in generations #they wear all black and paint skulls on their face #gideon the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb #Gideon nav #the ninth house #gideon the 9th #the locked tomb series #tlt series #tamsyn muir

[belle-keys]

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

#dark academia #dark academia books #dark academia aesthetic #poc dark academia #light academia #chaotic academia #books and literature #book blog #ya books #books #book recs #book recommendations #the secret history #if we were villains #babel an arcane history #the atlas six #ninth house #legendborn #dead poets society #bookblr #bookstagram #academia #academic #bookish #vicious ve schwab #the maidens #the raven boys #vita nostra

[lunaicfantastic]

fav part of gideon the ninth is for the first pre-canaan house chunk of the book, she's all "ugh I'm so normal surrounded by all these weirdo goth freaks when I blow this popsicle stand everyone will see how cool and normal and charming I am" and then she gets to canaan house and realizes that while she might have been a normie jock in the ninth house she is not exempt from being a goth weirdo who hides important doors behind tapestries and sneaks around in the dark so she doesn't have to talk to people. like we talk about her being a jock forced to be goth but nature v nurture babey she's not shedding that bone freak skin anytime soon

#gideon the ninth #and she realizes this its really funny #every time she does some ninth house shit shes like damn this is some ninth house shit :/ #and then she does it anyway #i actually think its a cool piece of character work: gideon goes from seeing herself outside of/in opposition to the ninth house #in the beginning of the book #to feeling a part of/a soldier for the ninth house (and harrow specifically who gideon sees as the epitome of the ninth) #even during her brief backslide where she goes and talks shit with the eighth she can't really separate herself the way she could before #and when the chips are down and isaac and jeannemary are dead she wants two things: her longsword (a relic of aiglamene's training) #and harrow #so #yeah shes a jock but shes a goth weirdo freak jock #and shes a jock of the ninth #shut up anna

[ekbelsher]

Leigh Bardugo asked me to draw Darlington from Ninth House! (I dropped my phone. She’s one of my all-time favourite authors). The sequel to Ninth House, HELL BENT, came out this week :)

#darlington #ninth house #leigh bardugo books #leigh bardugo #book characters #hell bent #dark fantasy #paranormal fantasy #alex stern #commissions #character art #ekbelsher

[semipreciousartist]

Locked Tomb Meme Zine

#the locked tomb #locked tomb series #tlt shitposting #tlt memes #gtn #htn #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #locked tomb spoilers #locked tomb memes #gideon nav #john gaius #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #none house with left grief #help me these books have a vice grip on my brain #art #tlt zine

[foxtea]

cam, go loud

#drawing #sketch #doodle #foxtea #fanart #procreate #the locked tomb #digital art #my art #cam hect #camilla hect #camilla the sixth #sixth house #gideon the ninth #gideon the ninth fanart #books #booklr

[macaulaytwins]

Daniel Arlington III the man that you are,,,,,,

#my knees are buckling #daniel arlington #ninth house #hell bent #darlington #darlingstern #leigh bargudo #alex stern #books #book quotes #dark academia

[eskildit]

i think a lot about hot sauce and jeannemary. two young girls so ready to kill and to die. a comparison made all the worse when you recall that hot sauce lost all her family to the cohort, that she can specifically recall fourth style necromancy (using corpses as bombs). a fourteen and thirteen year old that could easily have been on opposite sides of the same front line. 

#the locked tomb #the loss of childhood! senseless violence! #opposite ends of the propaganda machine #eskildit posts tlt #all of nona the ninth #how am i supposed to tag hot sauce #jeannemary chatur #ok to rb #edit: okay im actually gonna use these tags to ramble a lil #in many ways i feel alecto the ninth is gonna be the hardest book to actually pull off #first for the obvious reason that its an ending and endings are always hard #but second because nona the ninth was by far the most political book of the series #books 1 and 2 following harrow and gideon mean we're following characters on the outskirts of the empire #gideon is individually oppressed by the ninth and even harrow is considered a black sheep outsider of the nine houses #but they are still WITHIN the houses gideon has dreams of the cohort harrow has dreams of of revitalizing her house #nona was our actual introduction to the real consequences of the empire that characters like judith like jeannemary like corona herself #have their livelihoods and status entirely built on the imperial violence we see first hand on new rho #anyway i say all of this to say it means coming back to these characters might be kinda tricky! #the cost of the empire is no longer abstract its extremely palpable! #how does one return to our core cast we've know for multiple books now that we understand that #idk. interested to see where we go!

[violetrashie]

griddlehark au rock band because of reasons🔥

like it? prints/stickers and more availables here in my shop!! <3

#gideon the ninth #gideon nav #harrow the ninth #harrow nonagesimus #the ninth house #the locked tomb #griddlehark #gideon x harrow #au #rock band #music #epic #fanart #illustration #digital art #book #character design #la tumba sellada #novena #wlw #otp #ship #Sapphic #lgtb

[cherisheachother]

hell bent plot summary

#THIS WAS ALL I COULD THINK OF #hell bent #hell bent spoilers #this book was so fucking good I could SCREAM #alex stern #pamela dawes #abel turner #leigh bardugo #ninth house #has this been done already I haven’t looked through the tags #literally just finished reading it and still trying to process its magnificence

[denndrawings]

They are hot!! They are middle aged!!! They are insufferable!!!!

#deus apate minor #denndrawings #digital art #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt fanart #the locked tomb series #mercymorn the first #mercymorn #john gaius #augustine the first #the trio #this is one of my fave parts of the book tbh #Id like to thank my friends from the Spanish fandom for helping me to figure out how to color the mithraeum #it is supposed to be a mix between an abandoned space station and your rich spooky grandma’s house

[toointofiction]

"You know your problem?”

“A predilection for first editions and women who like to lecture me about myself?”

I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY, THIS IS A LOVE CONFESSION AND YOU CAN'T CHANGE MY MIND!!!!

#they better make out haaard in the next book #and then do the other stuff #I'VE BEEN TORTURED FOR SO LONG #darlingstern #alex stern #darlington #alex x darlington #ninth house #hell bent

[readlikeido]

dark spines

#books #books and reading #bookblr #booklr #books aesthetic #post: aesthetic #post: mine #reading #book aesthetic #aesthetic #dark academia #academia #if we were villains #empire of the vampire #the invisible life of addie larue #a deadly education #the last graduate #ninth house #hell bent #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia books #black spines #dark spines #book spines #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #bookstack #usercossette

[ekbelsher]

Concept sketches of Daniel Arlington from Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (the second sketch got chosen, but I kind of want to finish the first one when I get a chance!)

#concept art #darlington #daniel arlington #hell bent #character art #character illustration #book characters #fantasy illustration #concept sketches #leigh bardugo #leigh bardugo books #ninth house #alex stern #ekbelsher

[insignificant457]

#ninth house #hell bent #hell bent spoilers #alex stern #darlington #this whole book feels like a fever dream but I’m having a good time

[3frogs-in-a-trench-coat]

i need a dark academia book revolving around oscar wilde. like okay we've got the secret history- greek literature, dead poet's society- poetry and thoreau, if we were villians- shakespearean lit. so it would make so much sense for a oscar wilde style dark academia book/movie. i want secret seances, gay romance, unhinged sexy as fuck characters and murder

#the secret history #dead poet's society #if we were villains #dark academia #ninth house #text #academia #tsh #dps #iwwv #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia books #books #bookblr