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My September 2025 Reading Summary
Overall mood: rushed – given that I challenged myself this past month to reading classic fiction and dark academia fiction, this month has been a bit of a repetitive one in terms of themes, angles, and character tropes. I am glad I read these books, but it has impacted the way I read this month…
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Olivie Blake’s The Atlas Six Finally Makes an Appearance
I finally read The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake which has been a dark academia staple and book recommendation for years now. It feels like everyone and their dog has read this on bookish social media, which is certainly true among the accounts I follow who read DA, so it was about time I picked…
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A Sinister Mystery in Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
This dark academia is probably the darkest of my selection here. Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is a YA dark academia novel that not only delves into serious, heavy, and dark subjects, but criticises many sexist and elitist elements surrounding these topics, especially in an private academia institution. It is a hard-hitting read,…
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