🏛️ 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 Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Fixer

The Fixer #1

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

384 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery young adult mysterious fast-paced
Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

Anatomy: A Love Story

The Anatomy Duology #1

Dana Schwartz

338 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro

The Last of August

Charlotte Holmes #2

Brittany Cavallaro

317 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

245 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy literary adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

Hell Bent

Alex Stern #2

Leigh Bardugo

481 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror mystery thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

Ashley Winstead

356 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Truly Devious

Truly Devious #1

Maureen Johnson

420 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery thriller young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang

If You Could See the Sun

Ann Liang

341 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary magical realism young adult adventurous emotional fast-paced
The Likeness by Tana French

The Likeness

Dublin Murder Squad #2

Tana French

466 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Never Saw Me Coming

Vera Kurian

400 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced