Considering Making Edgar Allan Poe’s Works Into My Entire Personality.

The Tragedy of the Monster Lady

1. Ocean Vuong | 2. love Slowly Kills by Adrian Borda | 3. Anne Carson, from “The Fall of Rome: A Traveller’s Guide.” | 4. Julia Ducournau & Agathe Rousselle Talk ‘Titane’ And Violent Women In Cinema | 5. Monster (1994-2001) Naoki Urasawa | 6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche | 7. Mary Shelley ― Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | 8. Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in "A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953″ | 9. William Shakespeare — Macbeth | 10. Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953″ | 11. "Vesuvius" Amber Spark | 12. “The Forbidden Wish" Jessica Khoury | 13. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965) | 14. "11/11" Devi Mccallion | 15. Mahtem Shiferraw, Fuschia | 16. Rick Yancey, The Curse of the Wendigo | 17. Kristin Cashore, Graceling | 18. killer, pheobe bridgers | 19. Marie Howe, “After the Movie” | 20. La Faim by Félix Labisse | 21. Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome | 22. martha gellhorn, selected letters | 23. raw (2016) | 24. David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest | 25. Lily Chatterjee (attrib.) | 26. The Dark Knight (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan | 27. Joey Comeau, A Softer World (#642) | 28. Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses | 29. carmen maria machado, in the dream house | 30. nicole lyons | 31. wintersong, s. jae-jones | 32. nicole homer, “underbelly” | 33. Only Angels Have Wings, Nicole Dollangange | 34. Carol Ann Duffy, Medusa | 35. Khalil Gibran | 36. ocean vuong | 37. Ice Nine Kills, The Nature of the Beast | 38. Octavio Paz, tr. by Elizabeth Bishop, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987 | 39. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) | 40.Adrienne Rich, from Diving into the Wreck; “The phenomenology of anger” | 41. Franz Wright, from his collection God’s Silence | 42. Euripides, Medea | 43. Journal of Katherine Mansfield - Katherine Mansfield. | 44. the archer by taylor swift | 45. Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay (2011) | 46. Toni Morrison, Sula | 47. "As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks" by Susan Sontag | 48. Björk - Bachelorette

I am indeed a woman in STEM

Women in STEM (Smut, Trauma, Enemies to lovers, Masquerade balls)

physics makes me wanna *bangs head against the wall repeatedly*

Having a father is like you're the worst man I've ever met my fondest childhood memories include you you treated my mom horribly you are trying to be a good person you're evreything I fear in a man no man will ever protect me like you do why do you hate women but love me?

i am somehow clair de lune, gymnopédie no.1, lacrimosa and danse macabre all at once.

  ― Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets

[text ID: I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, / in secret, between the shadow and the soul.]

Booklist for all the Dark Academics:

[Dark Academia book recs of all the different kinds I could think of. It's a long journey. Buckle up.]

The Classic Dark Academic :

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Anything by the Brontë sisters

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (this book birthed Dark Academia)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Bram Stokers Dracula

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Maurice by EM Forster

Madam Bovary by Gustav Flaubert

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Good Man is Hard to Find

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Macbeth by Shakespeare

Othello by Shakespeare

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Poetry-lover Academic:

Poetry of Baudelaire

Odes of Keats (ALL OF THEM ARE A MUST READ)

Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (especially The Raven)

Shelley's Alastor, Prometheus Unbound, Masque of Anarchy

Kubla Khan by Coleridge

T.S Elliott's Wasteland

all Emily Dickinson poetry but especially 'I felt a funeral in my brain', 'Because I could not stop for death' (read them a thousand times already)

Pablo Neruda's Nothing but Death

Langston Hughes

Tennyson's Lotos eater (underrated gem)

Sylvia Plath poems but special mentions to Lady Lazarus and the Bell jar

Paradise Lost by Milton (if you want to include something about the Devil in your list)

Poems by Sappho

The Contemporary Dark Academic:

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (the origin of Dark Academia)

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Ace of Spades by Amanda Foody (could recommend it a hundred times)

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

If We Were Villains by ML Rio

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Girls are all so nice here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Likeness by Tana French

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

One of us is lying by Karen Mcmanus

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Plot by Jean Hanff

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Conversion by Katherine Howe

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Quaint and Curious Volume

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Lying Games by Ruth Ware

Black Chalk by Christopher J Yates

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

The Furies by Fernanda Eberstadt

The Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Bad Habits by Charleigh Rose

Good Girls Lie by JT Ellison

Queer Dark Academic:

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (yes, yes, yes it's the gay shit)

Notes on a Scandal (What was she thinking?) by Zoë Heller

Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (lesbian vampire, hell yeah!)

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Maurice by EM Forster

Christabel by Coleridge

Poems by Sappho

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

Ace of Spades by Amanda Foody

The Dark Romantic Academic:

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Likeness by Tana French

The Temple House by Rachel Donohue

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Mythological Dark Academic:

(pardon me for my cluelessness)

I have not really read much about mythology but if Norse mythology is the area of your interest, Neil Gaiman is the God of it. (aka not only Good Omens and American Gods, but also the book 'Norse Mythology')

The Furies by Fernanda Eberstadt

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Circe by Madeline Miller

[Remember: Some of these books have dark academia as their major aspect but most of them have dark academia as their minor aspect, and many of them have been put into the list because I got a dark academia kind of vibe from them. Moreover these books have a lot more to offer than just Dark Academia, even if we ignore that aspect, these books are just great pieces of literature. This list is entirely created out of my own reading researches, friendly recommendations, and book recs from reddit, pinterest and the internet in general. If I have gone wrong somewhere or if you want me to add something new, feel free to drop an ask.]

Students,

If you're wearing the same sweats over and over and eating badly and drinking too much caffeine, you're not a depressed student.

You're just stuck in the second half of The Secret History.

but who cares? it's just us

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