🏛️ 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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Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro

Ordinary Monsters

The Talents Trilogy #1

J.M. Miro

660 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

Middlegame

Alchemical Journeys #1

Seanan McGuire

528 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst

The Queen of Blood

The Queens of Renthia #1

Sarah Beth Durst

368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Summer Sons

Lee Mandelo

372 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

The Golden Enclaves

The Scholomance #3

Naomi Novik

14 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The Atlas Six

The Atlas #1

Olivie Blake

15 hours, 59 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Die unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende

Die unendliche Geschichte

Michael Ende

520 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy middle grade adventurous medium-paced
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

The Last Graduate

The Scholomance #2

Naomi Novik

388 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
The Magicians by Lev Grossman

The Magicians

The Magicians #1

Lev Grossman

416 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark medium-paced
The Binding by Bridget Collins

The Binding

Bridget Collins

438 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ dark emotional mysterious medium-paced