Updating the Curriculum: 2025 SFFH Dark Academia Novels You Won’t Want to Miss
The phrase dark academia evokes haunted halls on elite campuses, dusty libraries and dour dorms, and toxic type-A friend groups. In fact, several of the books on this list contain one or more of those elements. But today’s dark academia is just as likely to eschew those aesthetics to grapple with subtler and more mundane darknesses.