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Dark Academia Books (but make them gothic)

I’ve been obsessed with gothic dark academia books lately, so if you have any additional recommendations, please drop them in the comments!

  1. Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drew’s
  2. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
  3. The Resurrectionist by A Rae Dunlap
  4. An Education in Malice by ST Gibson
  5. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
  6. The Cloisters by Katy Hays
  7. Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
  8. Summer Sons by Lee Mendelo
  9. A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft
  10. A Theory in Dreaming by Ava Reid
  11. Grave Matter by Katrina Hale
  12. Tenderly, I Am Devoured by Lyndall Clipstone

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    Maria Lam

    I don’t feel any description I could give would do it justice but Death in the Spires by K. J. Charles is a dark academia mystery novel with a British gothic aesthetic. In 1905, ten years after his best friend was murdered in 1895, Jeremy Kite tracks down the university friend group trying to work out what happened (the narrative splits between 1905 and 1895 – but not in any way that feels jarring). In particular, the architectural settings descriptions (Oxford) and a recurring motif of unsmiling photographs (because back then they couldn’t smile due to exposure time) both feel pretty gothic.

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      Liz

      Thank you for the recommendation! This sounds right up my alley. I’ll have to check it out.

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