Dark academia books you probably haven't heard of 🕯️📜 my dark academia TBR

[@Thelaughingpreacher]

Dark Academia is my new favorite obsession!

[@MDN_Moon]

TBH same

[@lindacarson5429]

🕯️📜 The Ian Pears looks great. Love a chunky book for the dark nights.

[@rocknregalia]

Very nice collection. I think that the Shirley Jackson one and the one about the trial in the 1600s sound very compelling. Another read that is not quite Dark Academia but has a professor, an English teacher, students, and a body is The Limit by Finnish author Riika Pulkkinen. It is more of a serious contemporary but very compelling.

[@Luumus]

I'm reading Babel in Edinburgh this week, a Dark Academia book in the capital city of Dark Academia. So this video is right on theme! Thank you for the suggestions, will definitely give them a look.

[@arlissbunny]

An Instance of the Fingerpost is great! You’ve reminded me of it so now I need to reread it.

[@NinaReads]

This gave me way too many books to add to my TBR! I loved Summer Sons more than I thought I would so I would recommend that

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

Join me in the TBR chaos 😂

[@Isabella-iu2sf]

YESSS, the way I GASPED when I saw Summer Sons. I adored it and I'm so excited to see what you think of it!!

[@graceezri8870]

Just picked up Babel today so this Dark Academia video came at the perfect time! 📜

[@timmeyer9191]

Mary Shelly Book Club sounds interesting.

[@FaeryLaume]

Although I'd heard of most of these books, I didn't know enough about them to realize they fit the DA genre. Thanks for expanding past the titles that are most often suggested. I have several of these on my home bookshelves already!

[@vanjadragicevic3676]

I love Special topics in calamity physics, finally someone mentions it ❤️

[@FaeryLaume]

I have a copy too, found it thrifting and someone told me it was a great read. But I forgot all about it until watching this video. Now I want to drag it out to read sometimes this winter.

[@ReadingNymph]

Thats hilarious that the book was bound with a part of a completely different book. Im wanting to try For Your Own Good, some great recommendations! Definitely adding some to my tbr 🕯📜

[@pearl5050]

We just love the raven boys here📜🕯️

[@sphinxinherhat]

🕯📜 Bellweather Revivals and Special Topics in Calamity Physics was what caught my attention so you could read those ones sooner, maybe? Now that I have finished my KZbin subs I am going to go watch an episode of A Discovery of Witches, which is not Dark Academia but whiich I'm really loving because it is filmed at Oxford and it gave me lovely visuals for the setting back when I was still reading Babel.

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

I can certainly try! I read Discovery of Witches last December and need to continue the series!

[@leeh4343]

I’m so glad that yourself and Codie are talking about The Lake of Dead Languages ( despite the dodgy publication 🤣 ) - I read it years ago and it still sits firmly on my favourites shelf - I hope you enjoy it a lot too 😊 also Hanging Rock is just up the road from me and even going there in the daylight it is a little spooky!

[@SallyBowles5050]

I read The Lake of Dead Languages many years ago. One of my favorites. 📚🤓🍷

[@missidaswann]

Great list! Added a few to my TBR 🙂 I read "The Society for Soulless Girls" when it was published this summer. Loved it! 👏 It's basically a feminist and sapphic re-telling of Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde!

[@AFrolicInTheTomesxx]

I’ve never heard all’s well described like that. Now I’m a lot more interested in it!

[@tatianatribaldos1465]

Sirens and Muses is more of an angsty literary fiction type of book but it’s very good

[@wrigleyextra11]

🕯🕯🕯🕯really need some new reccs! Thanks for these 🧡🖤🤍

[@msellenandrea]

Love the surprise book 😂

[@courtgarris1396]

I recently got Black Chalk, The Lessons and Summer Sons. Super excited for all three! You have some really great recs here!!!!

[@xerxesblanche]

Subscribed within the first two seconds, I love your vibes 💞💞

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

Thank you so much! 🥰

[@DanielleOutLoud]

I’ve read They Never Learn and I absolutely loved it! It was my first “thriller” and I flew through it!

[@chesknits]

A great lineup of recs! 🕯📜

[@ellie-elles.bookshelf]

Great recommendations! Thank you for adding to my TBR 😄😄

[@the_creepy_geek]

I loved Summer Sons so much! I just got my hands on the paperback on a trip to London and I was so happy to physically own it! The audiobook is fantastic though, but I already want to reread it!

[@thetbrdiaries]

The minute you said Ronan I put Summer Sons in my basket 😂 it's been on my wishlist forever but that will make me actually buy it!

[@natashasebuwufu]

🕯 omg added loads to my list haha 😂 great video xx

[@millymollymrst3537]

I love dark academia. Great book recommendations. I also have a chronic illness, it can be very difficult 😊

[@bethanywilman486]

Temple house vanishing and tie polo blue are two really good dark academia books

[@thJune-ze7dn]

Ooooh I really hope you enjoy An Instance of the Fingerpost, it's a wild ride. I also laughed out loud when you found the wrong book inside The Lake of Dead Languages, I've seen printing errors like that happen before VERY infrequently, but it's weird for them to mess up on that kind of scale hahaha. Moved right on up there on my mental Ashleigh Moments That Give Me Joy list. I hope you really enjoy them all! You always give such wonderful recommendations.

[@sakurahan91]

I’d like to hear about The things We Do To Our Friends, The Bellwether Revivals, Black Chalk and The Lake Of Dead Languages. I read Incubus by Carol Goodman and think that would also fit the bill for dark academia if you want another book to add.

[@tawnyachristensen7310]

Hangsaman, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Mary Shelley Book Club, I would be interested in hearing about, but They Never Learn and For Your Own Good I have read and were pretty good.

[@OnceUponATimeL]

My October TBR is soooo full I can't cram in another book, but definitely will give this list a go next October - so many new titles! The Mary Shelly Club is on my list 📜 and I'm super intrigued to know how many movies [mentioned in the book] I've watched.

[@kirstensbooknook6575]

As it happens I’m not a murderer 😂 but I have added some of those to my tbr, thank you 📜

[@Moonymariam]

these are all exciting!😍🕯📜

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

This video definitely achieved its purpose because there's a fair few books on this list that I haven't heard of 🕯📜

[@cleg78]

🕯Great video Ashleigh as always

[@catarinaf.5216]

Love your videos 🕯️📜

[@michellegonzalez4879]

🕯️🕯️top quality videos as always 😊

[@r4ch4elreads]

What an incredible list! I just added so many of these to my tbr

[@joliraisinreads]

*Proceeds to add to the cart*

[@ChristyReads]

i also got an arc of the things we do to our friends after hearing it was set in edinburgh! so excited to get to it this autumn/winter season 🕯📜

[@AbiofPellinor]

I’m so excited to add literally every book to my tbr and read them all 😅 I’ve been meaning to get into dark academia for a while and just never got around to it

[@Jojojozilla]

Oh yay, a new video, can't wait to watch. I already have my Storygraph ready, let's grow my tbr.

[@Jennifer1306]

So many books to add to my tbr! They all sound amazing!

[@JanAgaton]

saving this in my favorites for future reference😍🕯🕯🕯

[@lauraleafromthelibrary]

These were great recommendations!!🕯️📜🖤

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I’ve had they never learned on my TBR since it released because I read Temper by the same author and loved it! I really need to read it!

[@bookshelfmonaluffy]

Thank you! Now I have more books to read HAHAHAHAHA 📜

[@Lume...]

I loved Summer Sons, I still think about it after months since I first read it😍😍 can't wait to hear what you think

[@CoverswithCassidy]

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[@nicolealcorn8908]

Adding them all to my tbr! 🕯📜

[@wickedbookwitch]

Would love to see you read Madam by Pheobe Wynne if you haven's already. Super underrated!

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

I have! I read it last year and rated it 4 stars 🥰

[@JulEnglefaris]

The Likeness by Tana French is dark academia and the mystery is amazing. She's an Irish author, who's actually really well known, but not in booktube 😞

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

I have that one noted down from an author event I went to not long ago! Definitely need to have a snoop for it

[@JulEnglefaris]

@@AFrolicThroughFiction yay! She's one of the best writers ever, in my opinion. That one is a gem!

[@HanaMar3i]

THIS WRONG BOOK BINDING HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE!!! I’m reading Furiously Happy, a memoir by Jenny Lawson, and BAM next page we’ve got strange old-timey English and George R.R. Martin at the top of the page. I thought it was a one off thing but nope, I flipped through and it kept jumping between Furiously Happy and pages of a freaking Game of Thrones book!!! Freaking Orion 🥲 I had bought the book 2-3 years before off Amazon while living in the UK and I was either in Egypt or Saudi, can’t remember, at the time of reading it earlier this year. So obv didn’t try returning or exchanging it but 🥲🤧 Your reaction? Pretty much mine. And I sent it to my friend and made her check her own copy to make sure I wasn’t going mad or this wasn’t a prank part of the book 😂

[@kefinkamed]

📜🕯 Damn, as if I needed to inflate my TBR any further 😂😂😂

[@sakurarinyui2486]

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[@bethmetcalf3447]

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[@latasharenay3890]

I was really hoping that Sirens and Muses would be BOTM because I'm cheap and adult fiction prices hurt.

[@shannonboote4483]

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[@almostdaisy5986]

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[@kristinazatkova8843]

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[@elize3137]

The fact that I've heard of all of those books (except Hangsaman) is kinda concerning. 👀

[@anisrazman]

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[@QueerlyRead]

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[@sandyokey7728]

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[@ba-gg6jo]

In my time "Picnic at Hanging Rock" was just a mystery.

[@Elena-lg3mh]

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[@missycosner2137]

I have around 5000 and sum books tbr why not add couple more books too list!

[@anautisticreader2963]

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[@scrapbookingmuchmore9884]

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[@rebekahdejmal5908]

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[@kathleenbaker2791]

If it helps, I though For Your Own Good was okay, not my fav, maybe 3 ⭐️ . Hoping you are doing well! 📜 🕯

[@Neil-writer-author]

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[@maartjedegroot9598]

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[@heartbeatoz]

It's very dangerous for me to watch your Videos as I keep adding more and more Books to my ever increasing TBR Pile.

[@teneshaanderson4761]

Picnic at hanging Rock is not dark academia

[@victoriah4648]

Picnic at Hanging Rock is NOT dark academia lmao

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

and this is why I don’t trust other people’s naming of dark academia 😂 I found it on multiple lists but was hesitant to call it so without reading

[@morganarosana]

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[@timmeyer9191]

Mary Shelly Book Club sounds interesting.

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[@kathrynsreadingnook]

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[@krystin7740]

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[@readingpastbedtime]

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