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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Gothikana by RuNyx
• Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

• 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

• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
• Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

• battery acid spaghetti
• The Flavor
• white gilgamesh

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