🏛️ 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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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

1021 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous mysterious slow-paced
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

579 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction historical mystery challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

Blind Owl

Sadegh Hedayat

112 pages • first pub 1935 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark slow-paced
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand

Waking the Moon

Elizabeth Hand

497 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror science fiction adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Stoner by John Williams

Stoner

John Williams

384 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

141 pages • first pub 1872 (editions)

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious fast-paced
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

The Murder at the Vicarage

Miss Marple #1

Agatha Christie

304 pages • first pub 1930 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

336 pages • first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-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
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

704 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction fantasy mystery mysterious slow-paced