🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2023 - hosted by bibilly

A classic or its counterpart
anything you can think as a "classic" DA book really (or just that one DA book you feel you have to get to even without this challenge) ----- The Secret History, If We Were Villains, The Orchard, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Magus, Maurice, Demian, Dracula, Steppenwolf, Beneath the Wheel, Possession, Stoner, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Sleepwalking, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Alienist, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Historian, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Piranesi, Babel, Brideshead Revisited, The Vampire Chronicles, Indelicacy, The Hour of the Star, A Breath of Life, Água Viva, The Athenaeum, The Name of the Rose, Dune, Hangsaman, Waking the Moon, The Cloisters.
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If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio

354 pages • paperback • 2017

fiction literary mystery thriller dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Tales of Hoffmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann

The Tales of Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann

416 pages • paperback • 1817

fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious medium-paced
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

272 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction fantasy literary speculative fiction adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

244 pages • paperback • 1963

fiction classics literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

704 pages • paperback • 2005

fiction fantasy mystery mysterious slow-paced
The Cloisters by Katy Hays

The Cloisters

Katy Hays

387 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction contemporary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Babel by R.F. Kuang

Babel

R.F. Kuang

560 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy historical literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dracula

Bram Stoker

482 pages • paperback • 1897

fiction classics horror literary adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

252 pages • paperback • 1890

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Frankenstein (Collins Classics) by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein (Collins Classics)

Mary Shelley

230 pages • paperback • 1818

fiction classics horror literary science fiction dark mysterious reflective medium-paced