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Dark Academia

Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo · 2020

The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio • 2017

Beasts

If We Were Villains A Novel
M. L. Rio · 2018

Bunny A Novel
Mona Awad · 2020

Boy Parts
Eliza Clark · 2020
The Maidens: A Novel
Alex Michaelides • 2021
Mystery

Cackle
Rachel Harrison · 2022

The Mean Ones
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne · 2025

The Witch of Willow Sound A Novel
Vanessa F. Penney · 2025
Pet Sematary
Stephen King • 2002

Bad Cree A Novel
Jessica Johns · 2023

Smothermoss
Alisa Alering · 2024

Annihilation A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer · 2014

Weyward A Novel
Emilia Hart · 2023

Slewfoot A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom · 2023

Such a Pretty Smile A Novel
Kristi DeMeester · 2022

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix · 2025

The Weight of Blood
Tiffany D. Jackson · 2022

Our Crooked Hearts
Melissa Albert · 2022

The Invocations
Krystal Sutherland · 2024

Wilder Girls
Rory Power · 2019

My Dearest Darkest
Kayla Cottingham · 2022

The Creeper
A.M. Shine · 2022

Diavola
Jennifer Thorne · 2024

The Winter People
Jennifer McMahon · 2014

The Honeys
Ryan La Sala · 2022

When the Wolf Comes Home
Nat Cassidy · 2025

House of Hollow
Krystal Sutherland · 2022

Little Darlings
Melanie Golding · 2020

My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones · 2021

Blood on Her Tongue (Deluxe Edition) A Novel
Johanna van Veen · 2025
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie • 2009
Fun

A Long Time Dead
Samara Breger · 2023

Vicious (Villains Book 1)
V. E. Schwab · 2013

An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir · 2016

Cinder Book One of the Lunar Chronicles
Marissa Meyer · 2012

An Ethical Guide to Murder
Jenny Morris · 2025

How to Solve Your Own Murder A Novel
Kristen Perrin · 2025

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson · 2023

This Is Not a Game
Kelly Mullen · 2026

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto · 2023

The Girls I've Been
Tess Sharpe · 2021

Play it as it Lays
Joan Didion · 2011

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2018

China Rich Girlfriend
Kevin Kwan · 2015

Death and Other Occupational Hazards A Novel
Veronika Dapunt · 2026

Bad Men
Julie Mae Cohen · 2023

Little White Lies
Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 2018

These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong · 2020

Such Sharp Teeth
Rachel Harrison · 2023

The Last Witch
C. J. Cooke · 2025

Jennifer the Damned
Karen Ullo · 2015

Guillotine
Delilah S. Dawson · 2024

Of Earthly Delights
Goldy Moldavsky · 2025

Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch
Codie Crowley · 2024

The Berry Pickers: A Novel
Amanda Peters • 2024
Almendra
Won-Pyung Sohn • 2020

I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 2019
<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>

All's Well: A Novel
Mona Awad · 2022
Complex

JAMES BALDWIN DARK DAYS /ANGLAIS (PENGUIN MODERN)
BALDWIN JAMES · 2018

Goddess Stories Discover Their Mythology
Alison Davies · 2023

Clytemnestra A Novel
Costanza Casati · 2023

The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood · 2018

Astragal
Albertine Sarrazin · 2013

Bad Behavior Stories
Mary Gaitskill · 2009

Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 1997

Babel
R. F. Kuang · 2022
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

Mongrels A Novel
Stephen Graham Jones · 2016

The Girls: A Novel
Emma Cline · 2017

The Vegetarian
Han Kang • 2016
<b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><b>“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize</b><br><br><b><i>A NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE </b><br><b>ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br>A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS </i>BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br><b>“Ferocious.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Ten Best Books of the Year)</b><br><b>“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff</b><br><b>“Provocative [and] shocking.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. <br><br>Celebrated by critics around the world, <i>The Vegetarian</i> is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.<br><b><br>A Best Book of the Year: <i>BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly</i></b>

The Archidamian War
Donald Kagan · 2013

The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton · 2016
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio • 2017

Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre · 2013
Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley • 2025

Literature and Evil (Penguin Modern Classics)
Georges Bataille · 2012
Classics

The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Sylvia Plath · 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen · 2002

Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1996

Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2021

Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen · 2013
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

The Second Sex
Simone De Beauvoir · 2012

An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 2023

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 2004

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2001

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1994

FARENHEIT 451
Ray Bradbury
Fantasy

Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020

The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh · 2015

Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo · 2016

The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater · 2013

Anastasia
Sophie Lark · 2022

Renegades
Marissa Meyer · 2017

The Knight and the Moth
Rachel Gillig · 2025

The Death-Made Prince: A Dark Fantasy Romance
Lisette Marshall · 2025

The Second Death of Locke
V. L. Bovalino · 2026
Feminism/Politics

Abortion Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
Jessica Valenti · 2024

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad · 2025

Erasing History How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Jason Stanley · 2026

Genocide Bad Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
Sim Kern · 2025
Books
Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition (Junji Ito)
Junji Ito • 2016
Books
The Poppy War A Novel
R. F. Kuang • 2019
The Only One Left A Novel
Riley Sager • 2023
Books

The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Penguin Classics)
Henri Alain-Fournier · 2007
Uncategorized

Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty · 2022

Ghost Wall
Sarah Moss · 2018

Julie Chan Is Dead
Liann Zhang · 2025
