🏛️ 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 Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

The Cartographers

Peng Shepherd

387 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary magical realism thriller adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Alienist

Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #1

Caleb Carr

496 pages • first pub 1994 (editions) user-added

fiction crime historical mystery dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Ninth House

Alex Stern #1

Leigh Bardugo

458 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials #1-3

Philip Pullman

1144 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade young adult adventurous dark reflective fast-paced
The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry

The Way of All Flesh

Raven, Fisher, and Simpson #1

Ambrose Parry

11 hours, 45 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

fiction crime mystery mysterious slow-paced
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

A Study in Charlotte

Charlotte Holmes #1

Brittany Cavallaro

336 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery young adult adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl

514 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary mystery mysterious slow-paced
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