🏷️ Secret Society
8 entries tagged with this trope
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
Elite classics students get seduced by Greek ideals until it leads to murder. The vibes are immaculate. The morality is questionable. Peak dark academia.
Babel
R.F. Kuang · 2022
Oxford, 1836. Translation is magic — literally. Robin is brought from Canton to study at Babel, the center of the British Empire's power. Then he has to choose: the institution that raised him, or the people it oppresses. Dark academia done RIGHT.
The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake · 2022
Six magicians compete for five spots in a secret society. One of them won't survive. Everyone is brilliant, morally bankrupt, and attracted to the wrong people. Dark academia with teeth.
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo · 2019
Yale's secret societies practice real magic. Alex Stern — a dropout with a dark past — is sent to monitor them. Then someone dies. Bardugo's adult debut is brutal, weird, and impossible to put down.
The Maidens
Alex Michaelides · 2021
A group therapy therapist becomes obsessed with a secret society of female students at Cambridge and their charismatic professor. From the author of The Silent Patient. Greek tragedy meets academic thriller.
Crown of Midnight
Sarah J. Maas · 2013
Now the King's Champion, Celaena must carry out his orders — hunting down rebels who threaten the throne. But her loyalty is tested when she uncovers a conspiracy that changes everything she thought she knew about herself.
House of Sky and Breath
Sarah J. Maas · 2022
Bryce and Hunt try to live normally. It lasts about five minutes. A rebel network, mysterious disappearances, and an ending that will make you throw the book across the room. That crossover moment? IYKYK.
House of Marionne
J. Elle · 2023
Quell hides a dark magic that could kill her. She enrolls in a secret society of debutantes who wield bone magic. Think Bridgerton meets The Secret History with a Black girl lead. The aesthetic alone is worth it.