🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2024 - 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, Pnin, Pale Fire, Lote, Saint Sebastian's Abyss, Ship of Theseus.
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Umbra vântului by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Umbra vântului

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1

Carlos Ruiz ZafĂłn

488 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

fiction historical literary mystery adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

315 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

fiction classics literary poetry challenging mysterious slow-paced
Quincunx by Charles Palliser

Quincunx

Charles Palliser

1503 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

fiction historical mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang

Opium and Absinthe

Lydia Kang

384 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical literary mystery dark mysterious fast-paced
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

38 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 1877 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio

12 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction literary thriller dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

3 hours, 27 minutes • first pub 1949 (editions) user-added

fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

An Education in Malice

S.T. Gibson

358 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ romance dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Demian by Hermann Hesse

Demian

Hermann Hesse

194 pages • first pub 1919 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

245 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy literary adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced