🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2023 - hosted by bibilly

They seem to be very good friends
is there anything gayer than academia? ----- Maurice, Demian, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Magus, The Athenaeum, These Violent Delights, The Lessons, Summer Sons, A Lesson in Vengeance, The Society For Soulless Girls, Sirens & Muses, The Starless Sea, Wilder Girls, Feverwake duology, Tennebrose series, The Once and Future Witches, Fence (graphic novels series).
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The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland

13 hours, 6 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

224 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ literary science fiction dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven

The Society for Soulless Girls

Laura Steven

406 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ thriller young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Penguin Classics Maurice by David Leavitt, David Leavitt, E.M. Forster

Penguin Classics Maurice

David Leavitt, David Leavitt, E.M. Forster

256 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ dark reflective sad slow-paced
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Gideon the Ninth

The Locked Tomb #1

Tamsyn Muir

464 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy

Sweet Days of Discipline

Fleur Jaeggy

101 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary dark reflective slow-paced
Um Tempo no Inferno & Iluminações by Arthur Rimbaud

Um Tempo no Inferno & Iluminações

Arthur Rimbaud

264 pages • first pub 1873 (editions)

fiction classics poetry dark reflective medium-paced
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

These Violent Delights

Micah Nemerever

465 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary thriller dark emotional tense slow-paced
Maurice by E.M. Forster

Maurice

E.M. Forster

304 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne

712 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced