Dark academia books with fantasy elements
created by TheReadingJournaler
last updated June, 2026
Bodies of Magic
Freya Marske
Half City
Kate Golden
The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
An Education in Malice
S.T. Gibson
Immortal Dark
Tigest Girma
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Vicious
Victoria Schwab
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
Marina Dyachenko
Modern Divination
Isabel Agajanian
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
Mark Lawrence
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett
The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Curious Tides
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
Olivie Blake
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid
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