Dark Academia is a genre associated with the arts and literature, beloved for its moody university and boarding school settings.

Take this month’s quiz to see how well you know the novels that bring this literary movement to life!

1. What is the name of the Classic’s professor in The Secret History by Donna Tartt?
2. What novel was adapted into a 1989 film starring Robin Williams as an English Teacher?
3. Kathy, Ruth and _ __ __ ___ __ _ _ are the three main characters in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.
4. What year was Mona Awad’s Bunny published?
5. Who wrote Portrait of a Thief?
6. In R F Kuang’s Babel, in what city does Robin Swift train before attempting to enrol at Oxford?
7. Which novel by Leigh Bardugo follows a protagonist called Alex Stern?
8. What’s the name of the secret society in The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake?
9. In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray who paints the titular portrait?
10. Where do Isabella and Bridget go to study in Belladonna by Anabara Salam?

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1 Julian Morrow

2 Dead Poets Society

3 Tommy

4 2019

5 Grace D Li

6 London

7 Ninth House

8 The Alexandrian Society

9 Basil Hallward

10 Northern Italy