🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2024 - 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, Grey Dog, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth.
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Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

Their Vicious Games

Their Vicious Games #1

Joelle Wellington

416 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

Babel: An Arcane History

R.F. Kuang

21 hours, 45 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron

My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix

Remixed Classics #6

Kalynn Bayron

263 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ mystery young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

200 pages • first pub 1899 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging dark slow-paced
Lexicon by Max Barry

Lexicon

Max Barry

12 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions) user-added

fiction science fiction thriller adventurous challenging mysterious fast-paced
Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

400 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ mystery young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman by Kristen R. Lee

Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman

Kristen R. Lee

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary young adult challenging emotional slow-paced
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

The Centre

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

278 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary speculative fiction thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer

The Witching Tide

Margaret Meyer

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical literary dark emotional tense medium-paced
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth #1

N.K. Jemisin

512 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced