Dark academia books with fantasy elements
created by TheReadingJournaler
last updated December, 2025
The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
An Education in Malice
S.T. Gibson
Immortal Dark
Tigest Girma
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
Naomi Novik
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
Tracy Deonn
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Vicious (Villains, #1)
Victoria Schwab
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
Marina Dyachenko
Modern Divination (Modern Divination, #1)
Isabel Agajanian
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy, #1)
Mark Lawrence
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
Heather Fawcett
The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Curious Tides (Drowned Gods, #1)
Pascale Lacelle
Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
J.M. Miro
The Whispering Dark
Kelly Andrew
An Academy for Liars
Alexis Henderson
The Incandescent
Emily Tesh
Blood Over Bright Haven
M.L. Wang
Babel
R.F. Kuang
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
Olivie Blake
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Leigh Bardugo
A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid
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