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🏛️ 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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The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake

The Atlas Paradox

The Atlas #2

Olivie Blake

403 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Cloisters by Katy Hays

The Cloisters

Katy Hays

320 pages • digital • 2022

fiction contemporary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

A Deadly Education

The Scholomance #1

Naomi Novik

318 pages • digital • 2020

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro

Ordinary Monsters

The Talents Trilogy #1

J.M. Miro

660 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction fantasy historical adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis

243 pages • paperback • 1983

fiction literary emotional inspiring tense medium-paced
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

Middlegame

Alchemical Journeys #1

Seanan McGuire

528 pages • hardcover • 2019

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 • hardcover • 2016

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

Summer Sons

Lee Mandelo

372 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Die unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende

Die unendliche Geschichte

Michael Ende

520 pages • hardcover • 1979

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

The Last Graduate

The Scholomance #2

Naomi Novik

388 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced