I would add Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. It's set at a college in the 1970s and is a kinda sorta retelling of the Child Ballad of the same name. It's not got quite as Gothic a vibe as A Secret History, but IIRC had a similar feel to it. It's an older book - I think it was written in the late '80s or early '90s.
And I love the two books (so far, clearly more to come) by Leigh Bardugo set at Yale and revolving around their secret societies, Ninth House and Hell Bent. I'm really looking forward to the next book in that series.
Also, I don't know if it really counts as Dark Academia, but one of the earliest books I imprinted on as a teenager was A Separate Peace by John Knowles, set at a fictionalized version of Phillips Exeter. It doesn't have any of the supernatural that so much of Dark Academia has, but the isolation and obsessiveness and overwrought emotionalism leading to tragedy is pretty much the whole plot of this one. It was one of the few school-assigned books that I actually liked.
I would add Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. It's set at a college in the 1970s and is a kinda sorta retelling of the Child Ballad of the same name. It's not got quite as Gothic a vibe as A Secret History, but IIRC had a similar feel to it. It's an older book - I think it was written in the late '80s or early '90s.
And I love the two books (so far, clearly more to come) by Leigh Bardugo set at Yale and revolving around their secret societies, Ninth House and Hell Bent. I'm really looking forward to the next book in that series.
Also, I don't know if it really counts as Dark Academia, but one of the earliest books I imprinted on as a teenager was A Separate Peace by John Knowles, set at a fictionalized version of Phillips Exeter. It doesn't have any of the supernatural that so much of Dark Academia has, but the isolation and obsessiveness and overwrought emotionalism leading to tragedy is pretty much the whole plot of this one. It was one of the few school-assigned books that I actually liked.
What a great list! Thank you!
I love Rachel Hawkins Hex Hall because it mixes paranormal with boarding school. All is not as it seems with the students and the school
It’s set at Yale but I would say Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Hell Bent are amazing!