🏛️ 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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1021 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous mysterious slow-paced

579 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction historical mystery challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

112 pages first pub 1935 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark slow-paced

497 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror science fiction adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

384 pages first pub 1965 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

141 pages first pub 1872 (editions)

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious fast-paced

304 pages first pub 1930 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced

336 pages first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-paced

144 pages first pub 1886 (editions)

fiction classics horror literary dark mysterious medium-paced

704 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction fantasy mystery mysterious slow-paced