🏛️ Dark Academia Book Challenge 2024 - hosted by bibilly

A classic or its counterpart
anything you can think as a "classic" DA book really (or just that one DA book you feel you have to get to even without this challenge) ----- The Secret History, If We Were Villains, The Orchard, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Magus, Maurice, Demian, Dracula, Steppenwolf, Beneath the Wheel, Possession, Stoner, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Sleepwalking, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Alienist, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Historian, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Piranesi, Babel, Brideshead Revisited, The Vampire Chronicles, Indelicacy, The Hour of the Star, A Breath of Life, Água Viva, The Athenaeum, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, The Name of the Rose, Dune, Hangsaman, Waking the Moon, The Cloisters.
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Stoner by John Williams

Stoner

John Williams

278 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

256 pages • first pub 1927 (editions)

fiction classics philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

Água Viva

Clarice Lispector

88 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

fiction literary dark reflective slow-paced
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

273 pages • first pub 1818 (editions)

fiction classics horror literary science fiction dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

642 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction fantasy mystery mysterious slow-paced
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

252 pages • first pub 1890 (editions)

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Babel by R.F. Kuang

Babel

R.F. Kuang

556 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

22 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

272 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy literary adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
Scholomance - Tödliche Lektion by Naomi Novik

Scholomance - Tödliche Lektion

The Scholomance #1

Naomi Novik

480 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced