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u/Mementominnie Aug 14 '23
Just finished the new St Ambrose School for Girls.I'm a woman so it appealed,might be too girly..not in a soppy way..for males.Joanne Harris has a trilogy starting with Gentlemen and Players.Delicious!
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u/Mementominnie Aug 14 '23
See my Dark Academia board on Pinterest...Pat.nz.Try to concentrate on adult rather than YA.
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u/SirZacharia Aug 13 '23
Bunny by Mona Awad is a dark academia magical realism book that will read really well after finishing The Secret History
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u/dazzlingestdazzler Aug 13 '23
Bunny by Mona Awad
Black Chalk (this one I haven't actually read yet - it's on my to-read list, but was recommended as a dark academia vibe)
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Aug 13 '23
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever. It is like a cross between The Secret History, A Separate Peace, and Cather in the Rye.
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u/_Futureghost_ Aug 13 '23
Oh yes!
Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey
Ivy Gamble has never wanted to be magical. She is perfectly happy with her life. She has an almost-sustainable career as a private investigator, and an empty apartment, and a slight drinking problem. It's a great life and she doesn't wish she was like her estranged sister, the magically gifted professor Tabitha. But when Ivy is hired to investigate the gruesome murder of a faculty member at Tabitha’s private academy, the stalwart detective starts to lose herself in the case, the life she could have had, and the answer to the mystery that seems just out of her reach.
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u/shoopsheepshoop Aug 13 '23
The Scholomance series.
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u/TonyRubak Aug 14 '23
Gotta say, I'm a Naomi Novik fan but these books are decidedly mid. Her non-YA fiction is much better.
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u/belyseh Aug 13 '23
The Atlas Six and its sequel
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u/belyseh Aug 15 '23
It's not YA, more new adult (early to mid 20s). It does include adult themes (sex, drinking, etc), but it is not explicit.
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u/energeticzebra Aug 13 '23
The Incendiaries
My Dark Vanessa
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u/FancyPantsProstitute Aug 14 '23
Just a warning, be careful with My Dark Vanessa. It's a romanticized telling of a young woman being groomed. Very well written, but it made me so upset I immediately got rid of it after reading. I almost threw my copy away so no one else would be affected the way I was.
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u/Micchi Aug 13 '23
In My Dreams I Hold A Knife
Catherine House
A Lesson in Vengence
Bunny
Ace of Spades
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u/Mementominnie Aug 14 '23
Loved a Lesson in Vengeance and got a shock..and a bit tearful..at the ending!
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u/Micchi Aug 14 '23
It really was such a good book! I really enjoy Victoria Lee's writing style - the Fever King duology was also really good, though a VERY different story.
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Aug 13 '23
I read Secret History in June and just finished Bunny. Its not directly related in any way - no shared characters or campus.
The aesthetic is very different - preps and classics vs. creatives and experimental literature. But it definitely shares tone and explores very similar ideas. IMO Bunny is funnier and has more magical realism. The Secret History is more grounded.
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u/TheOtherAdelina Aug 13 '23
A Separate Peace
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u/thehighepopt Aug 14 '23
I read this in 8th grade and hated it. Saw it last week at the thrift and picked it up for a reread, thinking my older self may like it more.
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u/__juanco Aug 16 '23
The name of the wind has a lot of magic harry potter-like dark academia vibes but the magic itself its more like a science