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Ten Word Book Reviews: The Maidens
All the possibility, none taken; inauthentic, vapid; left wanting more
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Alignment chart of dark academia books, emphasis on the academia. I have read them all and this is my take on it all.
Is the novel a dark academia because it takes place in a school and there are a lot of "dark" themes or is it a dark academia because the atmosphere is grim and the characters are pursuing knowledge.
Also book recommendations, I think people would like the books that fall in the same quadrant.
Books under the read more.
Top Left: My favourite corner where I just want the author to flex their niche knowledge.
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies - Heather Fawcett
Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo
The Raven Boys - Maggie Steifvater
The Secret History - Donna Tarte
Babel - R. F. Kuang
Bottom right: The intersection between lots of deaths and some niche knowledge. This one is a bit more hand wavey so here are some explanations.
Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang: Often compared to Babel but has way less niche knowledge and more transactional deaths.
Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir: This one is a sequel but the convoluted plot lives in my head rent free and it’s Dark (Goth) Academia.
Bunny - Mona Awad: Lots of allusion to literature and mythology. Also lots of dark, bunnies and swans.
Bottom Left: Takes place in a school that people are trying to survive.
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Vicious - V. E. Schwab
Legendborn - Tracy Deonn
Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Atlas Six - Olivie Blake
Deadly Education - Naomi Naovik
Top Left: Happens in a school and pretty light on death but has “dark” themes.
The River King - Alice Hoffman
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
The Initial Insult - Mindy McGinnis
A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs - Janina Matthewson and Jeffrey Cranor
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Despite all my saddened rage, I am still a girl in her room reading her silly little books, watching her silly little films, listening to her silly little playlists.
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donna tartt’s reading list
In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.
Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Greek Poets and Tragedians
Argonautica
Antigone
Prometheus Bound
The Oresteia
Medea
Oedipus Rex
The Bacchae
The Frogs
Dante
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
Shakespeare
“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”
Macbeth
Hamlet
Dickens
“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Nabokov
Pale Fire
Lolita
Proust
In Search of Lost Time
Swann’s Way
Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Yeats
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Borges
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
Ethan Frome
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
Helena
Salinger
Catcher in the Rye
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
Orlando
Edward St. Aubyn
The Patrick Melrose Novels
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Norwegian Wood
Olga Tokarczuk
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Don DeLillo
White Noise
Underworld
W.G. Sebald
Austerlitz
The Rings of Saturn
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
The White Album
Other Specific Books
Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand
Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski
A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq
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The sluttiest thing a hero can do is showing up at the villain's doorstep while they're hurt and saying, "I didn't know where else to go."
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@lovesdaya
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“The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it.”
-Sylvia Plath
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Movies To Watch In 2025
Black Swan (2010)
The White Crow (2018)
The Dancer (2017)
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Girl (2018)
Silk Stockings (1957)
Polina (2016)
Incendies 2010
Berthe Morisot (2012)
Summer in February (2013)
Helene (2020)
Modigliani (2004)
Camille Claudel, 1915 (2013)
Mona Lisa's Smile (2003)
Final Portrait (2017)
Edward Munch (1974)
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Caravaggio 1986
Frida (2002)
Loving Vincent (2017)
Séraphine (2008)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Renoir (2012)
The Eternity's Gate (2018)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Little Women (2019)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Maurice (1987)
Before Sunset (2004)
School Ties (1992)
The Skulls (2000)
The Emperor's Club (2002)
Cracks (2009)
The Riot Club (2014)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Doctor X (1932)
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Nocturama (2016)
Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
The Holdovers (2023)
The Handmaiden (2016)
Rope (1948)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Dorian Gray (2009)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Tolkien (2019)
The Dreamers (2003)
Miller’s Girl (2005)
An Education (2009)
Jane Eyre (2011)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
Christopher and His Kind (2011)
Practical Magic (1998)
Knives Out (2019)
The Craft (1996)
Twilight (2008)
The Addams Family (1991)
Atonement (2007)
God's Own Country (2017)
Atlantis (2001)
Hugo (2011)
Stardust (2007)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
The Mummy (1999)
Rushmore (1998)
Wicked (Upcoming, no set release year yet)
Return to Oz (1985)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Crimson Peak (2015)
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🐦⬛ Raven Society 🐦⬛
The Raven Society is a secret society at the Academy of Magic, known for its unconventional methods and mysterious members. While rumors paint them as dark and dangerous, they’re more focused on unraveling the secrets of magic than anything else. Each member is hiding a secret that will have you questioning who the true villain of this story really is.
Author’s Note: I’m so excited to finally share the Raven Society with you all! These characters have been living in my head for years, and bringing them to life through writing and illustrations has been amazing. I can’t wait to share their Greek mythology-inspired love stories with you. There’s so much magic, mystery, and romance ahead! 😊🏛️🥀
📚 Book: Academy of Villains by Ever King
Learn More: Academy of Villains Series
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Absolutely fantastic book. Kind of sci-fi speculative/historical thriller. The biggest tragedy about this book is if it was written by a white author and not a Bengali one, and was set in Boston instead of 1990s Calcutta, it would have a massive fandom of Magnus Archives-adjacent enthusiasts.
Hubris of science, seeking forbidden knowledge. Archives and research in old cities. Weird horror cults. Plot relevant fish. Strange soggy old men in borderline toxic office yaoi. Historical context and commentary on the exploitation of the British colonies during 19th century discoveries of pathology and medicine. Creepy side characters in beach print shirts. Strong age gap lesbian subtext between a Bengali film actress and her younger protege. Ancient entities/goddesses in STEM. Weird AI systems. Colonizers suffering. People going through unnerving, uncanny, terrifying horrors and saying "we can make a great case statement out of this 👍🏼" Old men getting sexualized. Mosquitoes getting sexualized.
#the calcutta chromosome#amitav ghosh#book recs#book recommendations#bookblr#litblr#desi dark academia#desi literature#indian literature#bengali literature#bengali#kolkata#the magnus archives#tma podcast
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Best Quotes From 'If We Were Villains'



"You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."
"You can't quantify humanity. You can't measure it - not the way you mean to. People are passionate and flawed and fallible. They make mistakes. Their memories fade. Their eyes deceive them."
"I don't know, it's like I look at you and the sonnets make sense. The good ones, anyway."
"Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?" The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can't help but suppress a smile. "I blame him for all of it."
'She says, “Were you in love with him?” “Yes,” I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. “Yes, I was.” It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.'
'I need language to live like food - lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.'
'Below was the motto: Per aspera ad astra. I'd heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns to the stars.'
"We cracked up. [...] But we didn't really shatter until we were all back together again."
'The clock on the mantel struck twelve, and we stirred, one by one, like seven statues coming to life.'
'Actors are by nature volatile - alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.'
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something for the mind, something for the body
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it's me, my 17 personalities, 228 playlists and 479 unread books against the world
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Autumnal Poetry
🖤The Complete Poems of John Keats. 🤎The Poetry of W. B. Yeats.
Between reading my September TBR I’ve been thumbing through the poetry books I own, looking for autumnal poetry. So far this is what I’ve found.
Please share any seasonal poetry recommendations, I’m all ears ♥️
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| A thousand splendid suns, Khaled Hosseini
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