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• Society of Lies

  a Novel

  Brown, Lauren Ling

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  A dark haunting story of murder, the bonds of sisterhood and a secret society at Princeton.

• An Academy for Liars

  a Novel

  Henderson, Alexis

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  Lennon gets invited to take the entrance exam to Drayton college, a school of magic.

• An Education in Malice

  Gibson, S. T.

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  An isolated and ancient college deep in the hills of Massachusetts filled with dark secrets and ambitious students. New student Laura Sheridan enters an intense academic rivalry with Carmilla.

• Catalina

  a Novel

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla

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  Recounts the year in the life of an undocumented Harvard senior. Wry and vunerable narrator Catalina navigates her past, her uncertain future, and tragedies as she faces her impending graduation.

• The Will of the Many

  Islington, James

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  Dark academia meets Hunger Games in this thrilling tale about Vis Telimus who is sent to a prestigious academy to uncover the truth behind a mysterious accident.

• Ink Blood Sister Scribe

  a Novel

  Törzs, Emma, 1987-

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  Estranged half-sisters are tasked with guarding their family’s library of ancient and magical books. And together they must unravel the deadly secret that lies at the heart of the collection.

• Attribution

  Moore, Linda

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  Art historian Cate Adamson flees to Spain with the hidden painting she discovered and teams up with Duke Antonio to reveal the history behind the mysterious painting.

• In the Roses of Pieria

  Burke, Anna

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  Archivist Clara Eden works for eccentric estate owner Agatha Montague, researching romantic letters that are thousands of years old. But something isn’t right about her employer and it's too late to run.

• Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia

  Jiang, Ai • Nogle, Christi

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  A collection of short stories featuring all the staples of dark academia; boarding schools, secret societies, old and gloomy buildings, and a haunting atmosphere.

• Gothikana

  RuNyx

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  Beauty and the Beast meets Dracula in this story of outcast Corvina gets accepted to a mysterious university, a secluded castle on top of a mountain. It’s here she finds herself pulled into a chilling century-old mystery.

• The Sentence

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise

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  The story follows an Indigenous woman named Tookie who gets a job at a local bookstore after years of incarceration where she is haunted by a former customer, Flora.

• Cloud Cuckoo Land

  a Novel

  Doerr, Anthony, 1973-

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  Doerr covers past, present and future in this non-linear tale for lovers of books and all things storytelling.

• Disorientation

  a Novel

  Chou, Elaine Hsieh

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  PhD student Ingrid Yang is struggling to finish her dissertation on poet Xiao-Wen Chou when she stumbles upon a note that leads her to an explosive discovery.

• These Violent Delights

  a Novel

  Nemerever, Micah

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  Social outcasts Paul and Julian meet in their first year of university in the early 1970s. Their intense and toxic relationship leads them to murder.

• The Maidens

  a Novel

  Michaelides, Alex, 1977-

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  Recently widowed Mariana Andros travels to Cambridge to investigate the murder of her niece Zoe’s friend. Her lead suspect is the handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor who has a secret society of women called the Maidens.

• In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

  a Novel

  Winstead, Ashley

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  A whodunit psychological thriller about six friends, a college reunion, and an unsolved murder.

• Death in the Spires

  Charles, KJ

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  Ten years ago, Toby was found dead in his room. Now Jeremy reunites with his Oxford friends to solve the mystery of his death.

• Summer Sons

  Mandelo, Lee

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  Described also as a queer southern gothic, characters Eddie and Andrew are inseparable until their bond is threatened when Eddie leaves for graduate school. Before they can reunite, Eddie takes his life leaving Andrew to search for the truth.