🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2023 - hosted by bibilly

Professors as the main characters
or lead characters. just uncomplicate everything ok (im also including under this umbrella scientists, specialists and authority figures in general) ----- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, They Never Learn, For Your Own Good, The Magus, The Lake of Dead Languages, Malbry series (the first 3 books), The Emperor of Ocean Park, Professor Everywhere, The Rehearsal, Bad Habits, The Swallows, Madam, Confessions, Vladimir, The Professor (by C. Brontë), I Still Dream, A Certain Hunger, The Alienist, All's Well, The Betrayals, The Book of Mirrors, Alone With You in the Ether, Simone, The Just City, Madam, Nocticadia.
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Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

Middlegame

Alchemical Journeys #1

Seanan McGuire

528 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

192 pages • first pub 1964 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Alone with You in the Ether

Olivie Blake

262 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

fiction literary romance emotional reflective medium-paced
Madam by Phoebe Wynne

Madam

Phoebe Wynne

400 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction dark mysterious medium-paced
Antologia Poética by Arthur Rimbaud

Antologia Poética

Arthur Rimbaud

216 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics literary poetry
All's Well by Mona Awad

All's Well

Mona Awad

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism dark funny slow-paced
The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Alienist

Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #1

Caleb Carr

534 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction crime historical mystery dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
Stoner by John Williams

Stoner

John Williams

304 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

The Lake of Dead Languages

Carol Goodman

436 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction literary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Confessions by Kanae Minato

Confessions

Kanae Minato

234 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious fast-paced