7 Must-Read Dark Academia Novels

there is an incredible amount of surrealism and there are moments that just feel like fever dreams bunny is definitely not for everyone but I adored it

you're also in for a treat regardless because Frankenstein's the best novel ever written fact TM

this is absolutely a masterpiece I will not deny the fact that it owes so much to the secret history but this is my favorite of the modern dark Academia genre and it is also my second favorite book after Frankenstein

I have to admit right now I don't remember a lot of this book I need to read it again I enjoyed it at the time but now that I'm a much bigger fan of dark Academia since reading Bunny and if we were villains I now want to go back to this and give it another read

The Cloisters is absolutely wonderful and it's a great example of how the genre is starting to shift and evolve and change and explore different Avenues

the maidens by Alex michaelades could be seen as a piece of dark Academia with murder mystery elements or a murder mystery novel in a dark Academia setting

arguably the most wonderful thing about this novel is how beautifully it's written almost every line in the secret history is gorgeous in an Oscar Wilde Picture of Dorian gray kind of a way every line is a stunning piece of poetry it really is magnetically written and it's a wonderful case study in unlikable characters spending your time as a reader locked in tight with a group of horrible people and just watching them all unfold and collapse in on themselves