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What to read after “The Atlas Six” by Olivie Blake: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The Magicians
Lev Grossman · 2009
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
- Dark Academia
Quentin Coldwater is recruited to a hidden college of magic in upstate New York, where years of study leave him restless and still searching for meaning. When he and his friends find a way into Fillory, the enchanted land from his childhood books, its dangers turn out to be very real.
2
Vicious
V. E. Schwab · 2013
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
- Dark Academia
- Morally Grey Character
Victor and Eli are brilliant, lonely college roommates who turn a theory about near-death experiences into something real. Ten years later Victor leaves prison to hunt the friend who became his enemy, each armed with dangerous powers and neither willing to stop.
3
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo · 2019
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
Galaxy Stern, the lone survivor of a brutal murder, is offered a place at Yale by the secret societies that run the university's magic. Her task is to watch their rituals, but when a local girl dies, Alex must use the very power she fears to find the killer.
4
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
- Dark Academia
- Morally Grey Character
Seven acting students at an elite Shakespeare conservatory are so close they share every role. When one of them is found dead during their final year, the friends must decide what story to tell the police. Ten years later, one of them finally explains what really happened.
5
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
- Dark Academia
The Scholomance is a magic school with no teachers, where students learn spells while monsters pick them off between lessons. Galadriel 'El' Higgins, feared for the dark power a prophecy says she will wield, has to survive to graduation and the hungry things waiting in the dark.
6
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
Richard Papen leaves California for an elite Vermont college and is drawn into a tight circle of classics students taught by a charismatic professor. Accepted among them, he becomes part of a murder committed before the story begins, and of the slow unravelling that follows.
7
Bunny
Mona Awad · 2019
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
- Dark Academia
- Secret Society
Samantha dislikes the saccharine clique in her MFA writing program until she is invited to their private workshop. There the four 'Bunnies' practice a kind of creation that turns fantasy into flesh, and Samantha is drawn into their ritual world until she loses the line between delusion and reality.
8
Foundryside
Robert Jackson Bennett · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Forbidden Knowledge” and “Morally Grey Character”
- Forbidden Knowledge
- Morally Grey Character
Sancia Grado is a thief in Tevanne, a city where scribing commands objects to obey written orders. Hired to steal a key, she finds it holds power that could break the four merchant houses' grip on magic, and the houses will kill to keep that power buried.
9
Vita Nostra
Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko · 2007
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Academia”
- Dark Academia
Sasha Samokhina fails her exams and is told to attend a remote institute instead. There the lessons are strange and punishing, and students are asked to do things that break the usual rules of the world. Obedience may unlock a terrifying kind of power.
10
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson · 2010
Shared in the plot: knowledge, guard
- Forbidden Knowledge
On a storm-scoured world, a slave carries ancient honours, a scholar chases forbidden knowledge and a soldier guards a war that never ends. Their paths bend toward a returning danger few believe is real.
11
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Betrayal” and “Morally Grey Character”
- Betrayal
- Morally Grey Character
When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, Baru Cormorant hides her hatred and joins the imperial civil service. Sent to a restless province as an accountant, she works to rise high enough to free her people, even as her choices cost her the woman she loves.
12
Jhereg
Steven Brust · 1983
Similar plot moves: “Betrayal” and “Morally Grey Character”
- Betrayal
- Morally Grey Character
Vlad Taltos is an assassin who has risen to run a piece of the Jhereg, the empire's crime syndicate. Hired to kill Mellar, a Jhereg boss who has embezzled a fortune, Vlad finds him sheltering as the guest of the Dragonlord Morrolan, whose code of hospitality forbids any harm to come to him—and the Jhereg insist the hit be done before Mellar leaves.