🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2024 - hosted by bibilly

Get out vibes and decolonial takes
fight the system joining it ----- Ace of Spades, Vita Nostra, Never Let Me Go, Catherine House, The Orchard, The Violin Conspiracy, Real Life, Girls With Sharp Sticks, The Emperor of Ocean Park, How We Fall Apart, The Poppy War trilogy, The Legendborn Cycle series, Dune, Babel, Indelicacy, Portrait of a Thief, White Ivy, Speak, They Never Learn, I Still Dream, Tripping Arcadia, If You Could See the Sun, Nampeshiweisit series, The Weight of Blood, The Blood Trials duology, Prima Facie, Simone, Their Vicious Games, True True, Yellowface, Everyone's Thinking It, The Library at Mount Char, The Destroyer (short story).
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White Ivy by Susie Yang

White Ivy

Susie Yang

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary dark tense medium-paced
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Ace of Spades

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

422 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Catherine House

Elisabeth Thomas

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

323 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary thriller dark tense fast-paced
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

Vita Nostra

Vita Nostra #1

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

408 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

331 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Dune by Frank Herbert

Dune

Dune #1

Frank Herbert

658 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

fiction classics science fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced
Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

Their Vicious Games

Their Vicious Games #1

Joelle Wellington

416 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

The Poppy War

The Poppy War #1

R.F. Kuang

544 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

Portrait of a Thief

Grace D. Li

384 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ thriller adventurous reflective medium-paced