Dark Academia Goes Beyond the College Campus

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The Maidens
The Maidens 3.62 avg rating — 415,737 ratings
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Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 379,927 ratings
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Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 168,023 ratings
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The Cartographers
The Cartographers 3.63 avg rating — 78,324 ratings
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The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating — 950,233 ratings
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The Night It Ended
The Night It Ended 3.36 avg rating — 3,015 ratings
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The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Bunny (Bunny, #1)
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by: Mona Awad
3.48 avg rating — 288,261 ratings
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 214,007 ratings
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Special Topics in Calamity Physics 3.70 avg rating — 48,383 ratings
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The Cloisters
The Cloisters
by: Katy Hays
3.39 avg rating — 68,869 ratings
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A History of Fear
A History of Fear 3.71 avg rating — 3,844 ratings
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The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by: Dan Brown
3.93 avg rating — 2,475,132 ratings
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Catherine House
Catherine House 3.12 avg rating — 28,033 ratings
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For Your Own Good
For Your Own Good 3.79 avg rating — 39,143 ratings
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Ajax Penumbra 1969 (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #0.5)
Ajax Penumbra 1969 (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #0.5) 3.77 avg rating — 13,574 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession 3.44 avg rating — 13,713 ratings
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The Club Dumas
The Club Dumas 3.81 avg rating — 43,860 ratings
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The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1)
The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1) 3.42 avg rating — 42,424 ratings
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The Historian
The Historian 3.80 avg rating — 273,563 ratings
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The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1)
The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1) 3.48 avg rating — 20,024 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 696,617 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,235 ratings
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The Flanders Panel
The Flanders Panel 3.78 avg rating — 26,723 ratings
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The Dante Chamber (The Dante Club, #2)
The Dante Chamber (The Dante Club, #2) 3.44 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
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Babel
Babel 4.16 avg rating — 398,019 ratings
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If We Were Villains
If We Were Villains
by: M.L. Rio
4.11 avg rating — 375,848 ratings
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The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives 4.17 avg rating — 50,120 ratings
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The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2)
The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 4,506 ratings
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The Secret of Lost Things
The Secret of Lost Things 3.12 avg rating — 4,136 ratings
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Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum 3.91 avg rating — 73,671 ratings
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Death of a Bookseller
Death of a Bookseller 3.43 avg rating — 16,097 ratings
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The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy, #1)
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 36,012 ratings
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The Bones of the Story
The Bones of the Story 3.67 avg rating — 2,552 ratings
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The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1) 4.60 avg rating — 132,401 ratings
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How Can I Help You
How Can I Help You 3.41 avg rating — 14,434 ratings
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The Centre
The Centre 3.39 avg rating — 17,023 ratings
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The Book Eaters
The Book Eaters 3.61 avg rating — 52,953 ratings
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The Last Dickens
The Last Dickens 3.57 avg rating — 7,208 ratings
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Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway, #1)
Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 9,362 ratings
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A Burnable Book (John Gower, #1)
A Burnable Book (John Gower, #1) 3.55 avg rating — 4,527 ratings
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The Things We Do to Our Friends
The Things We Do to Our Friends 3.20 avg rating — 8,612 ratings
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The Bellwether Revivals
The Bellwether Revivals 3.61 avg rating — 3,860 ratings
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Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror
Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror 3.58 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim 3.75 avg rating — 31,466 ratings
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Black Chalk
Black Chalk 3.21 avg rating — 11,990 ratings
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Talent
Talent 3.07 avg rating — 798 ratings
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Ten Thousand Doors of January 4.01 avg rating — 160,274 ratings
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Plain Bad Heroines
Plain Bad Heroines 3.64 avg rating — 28,016 ratings
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People of the Book
People of the Book 4.04 avg rating — 153,716 ratings
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The Bequest
The Bequest 2.98 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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The Rule of Four
The Rule of Four 3.29 avg rating — 38,240 ratings
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In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology 3.36 avg rating — 3,056 ratings
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Disorientation
Disorientation 3.83 avg rating — 17,956 ratings
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Portrait of a Thief
Portrait of a Thief 3.44 avg rating — 31,192 ratings
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The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 25,673 ratings
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The Starless Sea
The Starless Sea 3.84 avg rating — 227,395 ratings
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The Ancient Nine
The Ancient Nine 3.54 avg rating — 1,565 ratings
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The Book of Air and Shadows
The Book of Air and Shadows 3.42 avg rating — 10,470 ratings
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The Woman in the Library
The Woman in the Library 3.51 avg rating — 82,544 ratings
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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller 3.96 avg rating — 5,210 ratings
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The Bookseller's Tale
The Bookseller's Tale 3.80 avg rating — 1,023 ratings
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The Bookseller's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #1)
The Bookseller's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 4,065 ratings
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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin 3.99 avg rating — 6,446 ratings
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The Resurrectionist
The Resurrectionist 3.88 avg rating — 5,385 ratings
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Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Ink Blood Sister Scribe 4.01 avg rating — 59,848 ratings
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A Novel Love Story
A Novel Love Story 3.62 avg rating — 107,253 ratings
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Come and Get It
Come and Get It 3.34 avg rating — 41,399 ratings
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An Academy for Liars
An Academy for Liars 3.45 avg rating — 19,951 ratings
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The Fortune Seller
The Fortune Seller 3.51 avg rating — 2,908 ratings
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Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 19,142 ratings
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The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)
The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 12,169 ratings
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Better Than Fiction
Better Than Fiction 3.41 avg rating — 13,217 ratings
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The Four
The Four 3.28 avg rating — 3,114 ratings
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An Education in Malice
An Education in Malice 3.51 avg rating — 20,082 ratings
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This Is How We End Things
This Is How We End Things 3.48 avg rating — 4,317 ratings
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The Bookman’s Tale
The Bookman’s Tale 3.76 avg rating — 18,312 ratings
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Book Lovers
Book Lovers 4.11 avg rating — 1,448,288 ratings
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When We Were Silent
When We Were Silent 3.63 avg rating — 6,084 ratings
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) 4.52 avg rating — 1,051,084 ratings
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Nevermore Bookstore (Townsend Harbor, #1)
Nevermore Bookstore (Townsend Harbor, #1) 3.55 avg rating — 8,331 ratings