Dazai Bubbling Down The River In 5 Languages, For Your Enjoyment :)

Dazai bubbling down the river in 5 languages, for your enjoyment :)

The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

Omg kindergarten skk is so so cute!! Will there be more?? 💕

"You know, this one is my super duper favouritest book!"

Reggie as little cats !!

*with the intent to make you cry* notice the lack of neil?

Charlie: I hereby reconvene the Dead Poets Society. Meeks: Charlie, we can’t do this. We’re breaking the rules. Charlie: Rules? We don’t need rules. We’re poets. We’re rebels. We’re free spirits. Pitts: Yeah, until we get caught and expelled. Charlie: Relax, Pitts. No one’s going to catch us. We’re too smart for them. *Headmaster Nolan walks in* Nolan: What is going on here? Charlie: Uh… nothing, sir. We were just… studying. Nolan: Studying? In the middle of the night? In a cave? With candles and a saxophone? Charlie: Yes, sir. It’s a new… learning technique. Nolan: A learning technique? Charlie: Yes, sir. It’s called… jazz poetry. Cameron: I can’t believe you guys. You’re all crazy. You’re all following Keating like sheep. Don’t you see what he’s doing to you? He’s filling your heads with nonsense. He’s making you disobey the rules. He’s ruining your futures. Todd: Cameron, you don’t understand. Keating is not ruining our futures. He’s opening our eyes. He’s teaching us to think for ourselves. He’s inspiring us to live. Cameron: Live? What do you mean live? You call this living? Sneaking around, reading poems, acting in plays, kissing girls? That’s not living. That’s wasting your time. You should be studying, working, preparing for your exams, applying for colleges. That’s living. Todd: Cameron, you’re wrong. That’s not living. That’s surviving.

sometimes i wonder if i’m really a perfectionist and then i remember that i have an incredibly detailed marauders era timeline that has every full moon, prank, birthday, and any important music that was released down to the day just in case one day i want to write fanfiction for this god forsaken fandom.

(and don’t worry it’s all fact checked and accurate)

(it’s all canon compliant and anything that has canon dates is dated [plus fact checked] there but there is a lot of fanon/ headcanons too)

okay it won’t let me put this in a reply so here it is lol

Timetoast timelines

Marauders Era Timeline

Marauders Era Timeline