🏛️ 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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The Spectacular by Fiona Davis

The Spectacular

Fiona Davis

368 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical literary mystery hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Legendborn

The Legendborn Cycle #1

Tracy Deonn

501 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Caraval

Caraval #1

Stephanie Garber

407 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven

The Society for Soulless Girls

Laura Steven

406 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ thriller young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Nocticadia by Keri Lake

Nocticadia

Keri Lake

682 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary fantasy romance dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Ghosts of Harvard

Francesca Serritella

480 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective 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
Beloved Poison by E.S. Thomson

Beloved Poison

Jem Flockhart #1

E.S. Thomson

400 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction crime historical mystery dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

Anatomy: A Love Story

The Anatomy Duology #1

Dana Schwartz

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-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