#Dark Academia

3 books tagged with dark academia, sorted by rating.

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Babel

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

Fantasy

Katabasis

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

Fantasy

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

4/5

Fiction & Literature

Babel

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

In an alternate 1830s Britain, Robin Swift, an orphan brought from Canton, is trained at Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation, known as Babel. There, translators power the Empire's magic by engraving silver bars with pairs of words whose meanings don't quite match. As Robin learns what his work is used for, he has to choose between Babel and the people it helps exploit.

Fantasy

Katabasis

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

Alice Law, a graduate student in magick at Cambridge, needs her advisor's recommendation for her career, but Professor Jacob Grimes has died in a magical accident. So she sets out to travel through Hell and bring his soul back, joined by her academic rival, Peter Murdoch.

Fantasy

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

4/5

A group of eccentric classics students at an elite Vermont college become so obsessed with Greek ideals of beauty and perfection that they cross a terrible moral boundary. A reverse murder mystery that reveals the killing on page one, then unravels the why.

Fiction & Literature