Episode 203 - Dark Academia

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

It’s episode 203 and time for us to discuss the genre of Dark Academia! We discuss aesthetics as genres, cosplaying as academics, anti-intellectualism, the differences between Canadian and American university experiences, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
• Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker
• An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson
• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
• If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• The Cloisters by Katy Hays
  • The Cloisters (the museum)
• And He Shall Appear by Kate Van Der Borgh

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Howl's Moving Castle (film)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Goth House Experiment by S.J. Sindu
  • Includes “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc”
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
• Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
• The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
• Faust

Links, Articles, and Things

• Dark academia (Wikipedia)
• Episode 115 - New Weird
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• University of King's College
• Sour Patch Kids
• Magic Circle
• Bottle episode
• Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
• Skull and Bones
• Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers
• Cottagecore

15 Dark Academia by Authors of Colour:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by POC (People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
• The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's by Hanna Alkaf
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
• Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
• Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
• The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
• Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
• An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson
• Babel by R.F. Kuang
• The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
• Land of No Regrets by Sadi Muktadir
• Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda
• Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
• How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 3rd we’ll be talking about the genre of Cozy Fantasy!

Then on Tuesday, December 17th it’s time for our “best books of the year” episode!