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

Dumb bitch plays Sherlock
any main character trying to understand things they shouldn't, not necessarily a mystery/crime book ----- Alex Stern trilogy, Truly Devious series, The Likeness, The Historian, The Maidens, The Alienist, Magic for Liars, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Professor Everywhere, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, The Cartographers, They Never Learn, The Starless Sea, Neverworld Wake, Confessions, The Society For Soulless Girls, The Cloisters, The Binding, If You Could See the Sun, Never Saw Me Coming, The Fixer duology, The Book of Mirrors, Anatomy duology, Over My Dead Body, Nocticadia, The Naturals series, The Seduction of Water, The Drowning Tree, This Book Kills, Lote, The Cruel Dark, Where Sleeping Girls Lie, Tender Beasts, People Like Us, They Wish They Were Us, The Mary Shelley Club, Lady Jayne Disappears.
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The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

The Maidens

Alex Michaelides

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

Hell Bent

Alex Stern #2

Leigh Bardugo

481 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

fiction fantasy horror mystery thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
W tych szacownych murach. Antologia opowiadań Dark Academia by Marie O'Regan
W tych szacownych murach. Antologia opowiadań Dark Academia
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Marie O'Regan

W tych szacownych murach. Antologia opowiadań Dark Academia

Marie O'Regan

400 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary short stories thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson

Nine Liars

Truly Devious #5

Maureen Johnson

445 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

Divine Rivals

Letters of Enchantment #1

Rebecca Ross

357 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Truly Devious

Truly Devious #1

Maureen Johnson

420 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery thriller young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

They Never Learn

Layne Fargo

342 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction crime lgbtqia+ thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Ninth House

Alex Stern #1

Leigh Bardugo

458 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco

Der Name der Rose

Umberto Eco

1120 pages • first pub 1980 (editions) user-added

fiction historical mystery challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Ship of Theseus by J.J. Abrams

Ship of Theseus

J.J. Abrams

456 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction fantasy mystery adventurous mysterious slow-paced