The Secret History
Donna Tartt
1992
Books with the “Dark Academia” trope
The atmosphere of an old university, hidden knowledge, and a dangerous obsession with study.
Atmosphere and mood · Dark Academia
Books with this trope
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
2019
Vita Nostra
Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko
2007
The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake
2020
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
2017
Vicious
V. E. Schwab
2013
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
2009
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
2020
Bunny
Mona Awad
2019
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Dark Fantasy
A bleak fantasy world without clear good or evil, where magic always comes at a high price.
Cozy Mystery
A gentle whodunit full of tea, small towns, and amateur sleuthing rather than graphic violence.
Creeping Dread
Horror that slowly builds a quiet sense that something is terribly wrong, instead of using jump scares or gore.
Magical Realism
Magic and the strange are woven naturally into everyday, ordinary life.