🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2024 - hosted by bibilly

Professors as the main characters
or lead characters. just uncomplicate everything ok (im also including under this umbrella writers, scientists, specialists and authority figures in general) ----- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, They Never Learn, For Your Own Good, The Magus, The Lake of Dead Languages, Malbry series (the first 3 books), The Emperor of Ocean Park, Professor Everywhere, The Rehearsal, Bad Habits, The Swallows, Madam, Confessions, Vladimir, The Professor (by C. Brontë), I Still Dream, A Certain Hunger, The Alienist, All's Well, The Betrayals, The Book of Mirrors, Alone With You in the Ether, Simone, The Just City, Nocticadia, The Seduction of Water, Arcadia Falls, The Sea of Lost Girls, I Have Some Questions For You, The Blazing World, Pale Fire, Pnin, Lexicon, We Play Ourselves, Jawbone, The Cruel Dark, Mona, The Unseen World, My Death, Erasure, Plain Bad Heroines, The Practice the Horizon and the Chain, Lady Jayne Disappears, Grey Dog, Outline trilogy, Second Place.
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The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Plot

Jean Hanff Korelitz

322 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth

19 hours, 27 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical horror lgbtqia+ adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

A Dark and Drowning Tide

Allison Saft

368 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
A Botanist's Guide to Society and Secrets by Kate Khavari

A Botanist's Guide to Society and Secrets

Saffron Everleigh Mysteries #3

Kate Khavari

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction historical mystery medium-paced
The London Restoration by Rachel McMillan

The London Restoration

Rachel McMillan

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical emotional 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
Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge

Strange Beasts of China

Yan Ge

7 hours, 56 minutes • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction contemporary fantasy literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Emily Wilde #1

Heather Fawcett

317 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

I Have Some Questions for You

Rebecca Makkai

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Questland by Carrie Vaughn

Questland

Carrie Vaughn

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous medium-paced