#dark academia recommendations

vanwssa:

In the first week of April the weather turned suddenly unseasonably, insistently lovely. The sky was blue, the air warm and windless, and the sun beamed on the muddy ground with all the sweet impatience of June.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History(1992).

Dark Academia-y Books (& More)

- My ultimate list of dark academia books/plays/poetry collections that I bought/received in 2020 that I didn’t own (personally) before

DA Staples (Novels):

• The Secret History, Donna Tartt
• The Song Of Achilles, Madeleine Miller
• If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio

Definitely DA (Novels):

• The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
• Circe, Madeleine Miller
• The Disreputable History Of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
• D.O.G.S. and F.O.X.E.S. (books 2&3 in S.T.A.G.S. trilogy), M.A. Bennett
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
• We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson
• The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

I’d say they’re DA (Novels):

• The Island, M.A. Bennett
• Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
• Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
• The Happy Prince & Other Stories, Oscar Wilde
• Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
• The War Of The Worlds, H.G. Wells
• The Letter For The King, Tonke Dragt
• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Good Girls Guide To Murder, Holly Jackson
• Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
• King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table, Roger Lancelyn Green
• Uncrowned Queen, Nicola Tallis
• Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy, Rev. Dr Barbara Reynolds
• Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami

DA Staples (Plays):

• The Crucible, Arthur Miller
• Macbeth, William Shakespeare
• Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Definitely DA (Plays):

• The Complete Plays Of Christopher Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe
• Electra, Sophocles
• Lady Windemere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde
• The Importance Of Being Earnest & Other Plays, Oscar Wilde
• The Ghost Train, Arthur Ridley
• Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov

I’d say they’re DA (Plays):

• The House That Will Not Stand, Marcus Gardley
• Journey’s End, R.C. Sherriff
• Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, J.K. Rowling

DA Staples (Poetry):

• The Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer

Definitely DA (Poetry):

• Great Goddesses: Life Lessons From Myths And Monsters, Nikita Gill
• Poems To Live Your Life By, chosen by Chris Riddell

I’d say they’re DA (Poetry):

• She Is Fierce, collected by Ana Sampson
• 101 Poems For Children, chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

Ibelieve I have discovered a wide range of dark academia related books, plays and poetry collections throughout 2020, some of which I wouldn’t have even considered previously, and I would highly recommend every single one on this list to all my fellow dark academics, particularly if looking to explore the impact and utter joy of literature within the aesthetic.