The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door is a magical twist on dark academia that presents an entrancing vision of an alternate post-World War I England.
A sorcerer’s rival accidentally casts an obedience spell on him in Maiga Doocy’s witty and refreshing Sorcery and Small Magics.
Melissa Marr’s Remedial Magic is a satisfying addition to the magic school subgenre—written for and about adults.
A tale of community and chilling adventure with a dash of romance, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries explores the darker side of the fae.
Babel, R.F. Kuang’s standalone follow-up to her acclaimed Poppy War trilogy, is an unforgiving examination of the cost of power.
For a story of dark magic in which nothing is as it seems, try ‘Ninth House,’ Leigh Bardugo’s wintry fantasy-mystery set among Yale’s secret societies.
Naomi Novik returns with the can’t-miss fantasy of the fall, a brutal coming-of-power story steeped in the aesthetics of dark academia.
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