🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2024 - 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, The Unseen World, 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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Dark Fae by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

Dark Fae

Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac #1

Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

538 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark fast-paced
S. by Doug Dorst, J.J. Abrams

S.

Doug Dorst, J.J. Abrams

472 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction fantasy mystery adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Caraval

Caraval #1

Stephanie Garber

10 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo

Over My Dead Body

Sweeney Boo

240 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy graphic novel young adult lighthearted 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
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Tainted Cup

Shadow of the Leviathan #1

Robert Jackson Bennett

410 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman

The Seduction of Water

Carol Goodman

400 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Ghosts of Harvard

Francesca Serritella

16 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Cloisters by Katy Hays

The Cloisters

Katy Hays

312 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis

The Spectacular

Fiona Davis

368 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical literary mystery hopeful mysterious medium-paced