🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2023 - hosted by bibilly

Dumb bitch plays sherlock
any main character trying to understand things they shouldn't, not necessarily a mystery/crime book ----- Ninth House, Truly Devious, The Likeness, The Historian, The Maidens, The Alienist, Magic for Liars, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Professor Everywhere, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, The Cartographers, They Never Learn, The Starless Sea, Neverworld Wake, Confessions, The Society For Soulless Girls, The Cloisters, The Binding, If You Could See the Sun, Never Saw Me Coming, The Fixer duology, The Book of Mirrors, Anatomy duology, Never Saw Me Coming, Over My Dead Body, The Cartographers, Nocticadia.
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The Cloisters by Katy Hays

The Cloisters

Katy Hays

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson

Nine Liars

Truly Devious #5

Maureen Johnson

445 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

A Study in Drowning

Ava Reid

376 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

Magic for Liars

Sarah Gailey

336 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy mystery dark mysterious fast-paced
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

536 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction historical mystery challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

676 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction fantasy mystery mysterious slow-paced
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

The Maidens

Alex Michaelides

9 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

Immortality: A Love Story

The Anatomy Duology #2

Dana Schwartz

400 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Starless Sea

Erin Morgenstern

498 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Summer Sons

Lee Mandelo

12 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ dark emotional mysterious medium-paced