🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge (fixed version) - hosted by bibilly

A classic or its counterpart
anything you can think as a "classic" DA book really (or just that one DA book you feel you have to get to even without this challenge) ----- The Secret History, If We Were Villains, The Orchard, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Magus, Maurice, Demian, Dracula, Steppenwolf, Beneath the Wheel, Possession, Stoner, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Sleepwalking, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Alienist, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Historian, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Piranesi, Babel, Brideshead Revisited, The Vampire Chronicles, Indelicacy, The Hour of the Star, A Breath of Life, Água Viva, The Athenaeum, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, The Name of the Rose, Dune, Babel, Hangsaman, Waking the Moon, The Cloisters, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Idiot & Either/Or, The Blazing World, The Meaning of Night, The Darling Killers, The Most Secret Memory of Men, Pale Fire, Pnin, Lote, Saint Sebastian's Abyss, Ship of Theseus.
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Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

Hangsaman

Shirley Jackson

218 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

272 pages • first pub 1890 (editions)

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Will of the Many by James Islington

The Will of the Many

Hierarchy #1

James Islington

640 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

1304 pages • first pub 1844 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

108 pages • first pub 1872 (editions)

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious fast-paced
Brideshead Revisited: 75th Anniversary Edition by Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited: 75th Anniversary Edition

Evelyn Waugh

432 pages • first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Maurice by E.M. Forster

Maurice

E.M. Forster

232 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Cloisters by Katy Hays

The Cloisters

Katy Hays

406 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

121 pages • first pub 1898 (editions)

fiction classics horror mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife

His Dark Materials #2

Philip Pullman

352 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced