Iām pretty new to this genre but wanted to comment to help this ask get more visibility!! Youāve probably already read Babel by RF Kuang, but some others that might qualify (for dark academia fantasy) are the books in the Scholomance series by Naomi Novik. Also idk if youāre interested in video games but Fire Emblem: Three Houses for Nintendo Switch is dark academia fantasy and one of my favorite games ever!
Jun 8, 2024
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With your interest in whimsy and YA fiction I would highly recommend Shepherd King Duology by Rachel Gillig. I flew through these books they were so engaging and had a really interesting magic system and a plot that doesnāt follow the standard āchosen oneā you see in a lot of fantasy.
Jan 19, 2025
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If we were villains:
itās one of my new favs by ML Rios! Itās about a group of Shakespeare scholars that go to school in this prestigious university in BFE. They are doing a production of a play when someone turns up dead with no suspect. Itās super thrilling and an amazing use of shakespeareās text to tie the story together. 100% recommend if ur into horror/murder mystery!
Crowns of Nyaxia:
This is a series by carissa broadbent that (currently) spans 2 main books as well as a couple spinoff books. The two main books are some of my faves in the fantasy genre. itās hunger games with vampires! thereās amazing fight scenes, gore, poetry, and a little smut if youāre into that. I read both of these books this summer and this is the first time that iāve read a spinoff in a series bc i loved the characters that much.
enjoy expanding your horizons!!!!!
Dec 30, 2024
itās just really good and the plot is amazing plus i love a good dark academia or like that core yk
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bc itās what I originally wanted when I first went to college at 17 but I was scared to make writing my job and got a B.S. in Nutrition instead lol
Now the goal is an eventual PhD in Victorian Literature but Iām just happy to have made it through this part at 32!
Stacked is everything I read in my English coursesābarely pictured are the 5 stuffed accordion folders of other reading materials under my chair haha
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the only place i win the social interaction
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conflusional. delonfident, even
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