🏛️ 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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Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

Vita Nostra

Vita Nostra #1

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

416 pages • paperback • 2007

fiction fantasy science fiction challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

432 pages • hardcover • 1601

fiction classics play dark tense medium-paced
Maurice by E.M. Forster

Maurice

E.M. Forster

232 pages • paperback • 1971

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

7 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 1963

fiction classics literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke

782 pages • hardcover • 2004

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Possession by A.S. Byatt

Possession

A.S. Byatt

576 pages • paperback • 1990

fiction literary romance challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

559 pages • paperback • 1992

fiction literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

359 pages • paperback • 1847

fiction classics literary romance dark emotional slow-paced
Demian by Hermann Hesse

Demian

Hermann Hesse

187 pages • paperback • 1919

fiction classics literary reflective medium-paced
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio

358 pages • hardcover • 2017

fiction literary mystery thriller dark emotional mysterious medium-paced