🏛️ 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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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
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio

370 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction literary thriller dark emotional mysterious medium-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
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

1024 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous mysterious slow-paced
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Name of the Wind

The Kingkiller Chronicle #1

Patrick Rothfuss

729 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Shelley

219 pages • first pub 1818 (editions)

fiction classics horror literary science fiction dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

272 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy literary adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

144 pages • first pub 1886 (editions)

fiction classics horror literary dark mysterious medium-paced
Stoner by John Williams

Stoner

John Williams

278 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

22 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced