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Dark Academia 101: 6 Books to Read This Fall 🍂📚🔮
A Study in Drowning
by Ava Reid
At a crumbling manor, an architecture student gets pulled into a literary mystery while something supernatural lurks in the shadows.
Blood at the Root
by LaDarrion Williams
On the run from his past, a teen discovers the family he never knew and an HBCU where Black history, community, and magic collide.
The Temptation of Magic
by Megan Scott
Hiding her shapeshifting powers is hard enough. Teaming up with the dangerously hot supernatural assassin who’ll hunt her if he learns the truth? Even worse.
Immortal Dark
by Tigest Girma
Welcome to an elite university for humans and vampires, where a lost heiress must live with the dangerously alluring vampire she suspects kidnapped her sister.
Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn
King Arthur gets a modern, magical twist when Bree discovers a secret society on her college campus that may hold the truth about her mother’s death.
Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson
True-crime fanatic Stevie arrives at an elite boarding school ready to crack its most infamous cold case, only for the killer to strike again.