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campuses, the occult, a bacchanalia or two. only true dark academia in this list 🍂🚬☕️

We all love gothic classics, but what is new when it comes to the gothic genre (from the last 20 years or so)?! For fans of Dracula, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, etc. Please comment with suggestions to add!

Books don't just sit on shelves and these novels show it. Each one is its own love letter to the importance of stories in every corner of human life, built on the belief that the right book, in the right hands, at the right moment, can change the entire shape of a life. (Always taking recommendations!)

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

A list of 100 gothic classics which covers over 250 years of literature, from the high-drama castles of the 1700s to the psychological "New Gothic" of today.

A collection of stories about women whose obscure knowledge, forbidden studies, forgotten traditions, or relentless curiosity become the thing standing between the world and disaster.

All genres, no teenagers or early 20s heroines. Open to suggestions because we need to read about women of all ages and walks of life.

I like my vampires like I like my lovers: melancholy, troubled by questions of meaning, and not necessarily romantic.

Nothing against the fun-campy-exciting vampire novels of the world, but this is a place for moral complexity, existential dread, and vampirism as a metaphor/lens to explore other ideas. I want vampire novels that make me think. Introspective vampires! The vampire as social commentary! Please suggest titles to add because I'm desperate for more!!

A mix of classics & modern literature, that have to do with the witchy, gothic and horror genres ✨

The goal: to have the most comprehensive complete list of vampire books, fiction and otherwise, in the world. Then? I’ll read them all.

Please send recs <3

Vampire books where they are the villain not the object of desire.

Dark academia without the magic!

For books filled with elite schools, universities, intellectual obsession, artistic ambition, secrets, rivalry, murder and beautifully dark atmospheres - with little to no fantasy or supernatural elements, and no YA.

I'm a sucker for them

Books on Books - Books about Books - Books within Books - Books about Libraries - Books about Bookshops - Books about Storytelling - Books about reading Books. BOOKS.

"a novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters of a narrative. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse other kinds of fictional document with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered to include novels composed of documents even if they do not include letters at all. More recently, epistolaries may include electronic documents such as recordings and radio, blog posts, and emails."

vampire books where romance is not the focus. think lit fic, horror, fantasy (not romantasy). throw any recs in the comments!

A mix of different books that all centre around the “dark academia” genre ✨

Epistolary delivery: Books told in the form of letters, journals, diaries, texts, logs, etc...

Welcome to "The Yearning Hall of Fame": an ever growing community-built archive of books that make us Feel Things™ (aka stories so intense they span centuries, shatter hearts, and/or leave you staring at the wall at 2am). // Featuring maximum yearning, soul-deep devotion, and strong “I would wait a thousand years for you” brand of suffering.