Gothic architecture. Candlelit study sessions. Finding a body belonging to one of the student body. This is dark academia, the high school experience that we all secretly wish we had. While not all of us were privileged enough to live this fantasy (or escape it without copious student loans) these authors were gracious enough to give us all the dark academia drama without any of the actual scholastic mortal peril. Here are some of the 10 best dark academia fantasy books on the syllabus.
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence
(Harper Voyager)While R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War trilogy is also about a nightmarish school experience, her followup novel Babel or The Necessity of Violence turns up the dark academia dial to eleven. The plot concerns a Chinese orphan who is adopted by an English scholar – the boy is renamed Robin Swift and relentlessly tutored in the study of language arts. After learning a slew of tongues both living and dead, he’s groomed to attend the Royal Institute of Translation at Oxford University, nicknamed “Babel” after the biblical tower whose construction was doomed by linguistic differences. While attending Babel, Swift discovers a dark secret, the Institute is using the latent magic found in untranslatable words to serve as magical fuel for the colonial exploits of the ever expanding British Empire. A better cautionary tale of how academia can be corrupted to serve dark ends there never was.
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