🏛️ 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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Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

432 pages • first pub 1601 (editions)

fiction classics play challenging dark medium-paced
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

579 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction historical mystery challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Maurice by E.M. Forster

Maurice

E.M. Forster

232 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

272 pages • first pub 1890 (editions)

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ medium-paced
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

7 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 1963 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Babel by R.F. Kuang

Babel

R.F. Kuang

546 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio

12 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction literary thriller dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

22 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

782 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

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

Possession

A.S. Byatt

576 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction literary romance challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced