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Dark Academia 101

Kick of the school year with a good read. Discover the schools and students, and the secrets hidden in the walls.

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  • After her mom dies, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her childhood home or family memories. The residential program at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape. That is until Bree witnesses a magical attack on her first…
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2020] — YA Fiction Deonn.T
  • High school senior Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the twisted fairytales he writes for the only person who can ground him to reality---Thomas Rye, the boy with ink stained hands and hair like autumn leaves. When Andrew's twin sister Dove…
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — YA Fiction Drews.C
  • After getting rejected by every single Ivy league school she applied to, and not living up to her immigrant parents' expectations, Jenna Chen feels like a failure. She wishes she were her smarter, infinitely more successful and Harvard-bound…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — YA Fiction Liang.A
  • Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school as a newly enrolled student at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school. After being homeschooled her whole life, and feeling like a magnet of misfortune, Sade isn't sure how she…
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — YA Fiction Abike.F
  • Ari's death was ruled an accident. To her best friend Milo, it's shrouded in mystery. Why was she in the woods the night of the fire? Was she alone? Figuring out what happened the night Ari died is the only reason Milo returns to Yates Academy. …
    Book, 2025New York : Amulet Books, 2025. — YA Fiction Calle.K
  • When Cal Ware wins a scholarship to an elite New England boarding school, he's thrilled to leave his past behind. Back home in Mississippi he was the poor, queer kid who never fit in. Not at school. Not at home. At Essex Academy, Cal is hoping…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Press, 2024. — YA Fiction Millm.D
  • Ellery West has always been a home for Faith. After an international move from the Philippines to Seattle, and a childhood spent adjusting to a new culture and language, the acclaimed school for magic feels like the only place Faith can be herself.…
    Book, 2025New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2025. — YA Fiction Bonni.E
  • For fifty years King Leander has ruled Ashland without an heir to the crown. After sending away his grandchildren to be raised away from the public eye and their parents, it's time to finally secure his nations future by appointing one definitive…
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — YA Fiction Duga.L
  • Rowan Sterling should be worrying about normal teen things like attending college and wondering if her best friend Lucas might be more than a friend. Instead, she's having terrifying visions of blood and violence. As the visions increase, Rowan…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Amulet Books, 2024. — YA Graphic Kiesl.K
  • When Kay reluctantly joined the youth group at Stone Mission Church in Orange County she expected the Jesus talk, dorky singalongs, and the colorful posters about how to dodge temptation. What she didn't expect was to stumble upon her two youth…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : First Second, 2024. — YA Graphic Morri.J
  • Yuji Itadori is just your average high school kid with immense physical strength. He visits his bedridden grandfather, hangs out with his friends in Occult club, and tries his best to avoid being noticed by the sports clubs. One day, the Occult…
    Graphic Novel, 2019–San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, LLC, [2019]- — YA Manga Akuta.G v. 1
  • Rin and Yukio Okamura have been orphans since birth. Adopted by Father Fujimoto, Rin has spent most of his life trying to stay out of trouble and failing. One fateful day an argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth, the…
    Graphic Novel, 2011–San Francisco, CA : Viz, [2011-] — YA Manga Kato.K v. 7