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

Get Out vibes and decolonial takes
fight the system joining it ----- Ace of Spades, Vita Nostra, Never Let Me Go, Catherine House, The Orchard, The Violin Conspiracy, Real Life, Girls With Sharp Sticks, The Emperor of Ocean Park, How We Fall Apart, The Poppy War trilogy, The Legendborn Cycle series, Dune, Babel, Indelicacy, Portrait of a Thief, White Ivy, Speak, They Never Learn, I Still Dream, Tripping Arcadia, If You Could See the Sun, Nampeshiweisit series, The Weight of Blood, The Blood Trials duology, Prima Facie, Simone, Their Vicious Games, True True, Yellowface, Erasure, Everyone's Thinking It, The Library at Mount Char, Disorientation, The Most Secret Memory of Men, Hell of a Book, The Fifth Season, A Skinful of Shadows, No Good Deed, The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's, Native Tongue trilogy, Divine Traitors duology, Where Sleeping Girls Lie, Tender Beasts, All That Consumes Us, The Practice the Horizon and the Chain, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Grey Dog, The Necessary Hunger.
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I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel

I'm a Fan

Sheena Patel

204 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Indelicacy by Amina Cain

Indelicacy

Amina Cain

176 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Legendborn

The Legendborn Cycle #1

Tracy Deonn

511 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

Vita Nostra

Vita Nostra #1

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

18 hours, 21 minutes • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

A Study in Drowning

Ava Reid

376 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Killer Instinct

The Naturals #2

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

378 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller young adult mysterious tense fast-paced
How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao

How We Fall Apart

How We Fall Apart #1

Katie Zhao

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

The Poppy War

The Poppy War #1

R.F. Kuang

530 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Ace of Spades

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

422 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced