🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2023 - hosted by bibilly

Let the games begin
im thinking magical schools, magical academia and power disputes, but the queen's gambit book also count ----- Dune, The Atlas trilogy, Scholomance trilogy, Magicians trilogy, The Black Witch series, The Poppy War trilogy, Babel, Vita Nostra, The Ivies, All of Us Villains, The Gameshouse trilogy, The Queens of Renthia trilogy, The Talents trilogy, Killing November duology, All's Well, Summer Sons, The Society For Soulless Girls, The Cloisters, The Betrayals, The Binding, Nampeshiweisit series, His Dark Materials trilogy, Middlegame, Tennebrose series, The Blood Trials duology, A Study in Drowning, Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Anatomy duology, The Once and Future Witches, Over My Dead Body, The Cartographers, The Just City, Their Vicious Games, Nocticadia, Emily Wilde trilogy.
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Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan

Luckenbooth

Jenni Fagan

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical horror literary dark mysterious medium-paced
Babel by R.F. Kuang

Babel

R.F. Kuang

556 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross

A River Enchanted

Elements of Cadence #1

Rebecca Ross

467 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Killing November by Adriana Mather

Killing November

Killing November #1

Adriana Mather

416 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller young adult mysterious fast-paced
All of Us Villains by C.L. Herman, Amanda Foody

All of Us Villains

All of Us Villains #1

C.L. Herman, Amanda Foody

400 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark tense medium-paced
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis

243 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction literary emotional inspiring tense medium-paced
O Corvo by Edgar Allan Poe

O Corvo

Edgar Allan Poe

200 pages • first pub 1845 (editions)

fiction classics horror poetry dark mysterious fast-paced
The Cloisters by Katy Hays

The Cloisters

Katy Hays

312 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake

The Atlas Paradox

The Atlas #2

Olivie Blake

403 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

A Deadly Education

The Scholomance #1

Naomi Novik

318 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced