33 Books like Katabasis

Immortal Consequences

by I.V. Marie • 2025

Wren and her rival enter deadly trials. Losers are erased from memory; only one ascends.

3.70

26k+

🏛️ Dark Academia ⚔️ Rivals To Lovers 💀 Deadly Competition

Immortal Consequences 94%

Wren and her rival enter deadly trials. Losers are erased from memory; only one ascends.

by I.V. Marie 2025

3.70

26k+ ratings

🏛️ Dark Academia ⚔️ Rivals To Lovers 💀 Deadly Competition

An Academy for Liars

by Alexis Henderson • 2024

A broken woman follows a mysterious call into a hidden college where altering reality costs blood.

3.43

28k+

🖤 Dark Academia 🏛️ Occult College ⚠️ Dangerous Mentor

An Academy for Liars 94%

A broken woman follows a mysterious call into a hidden college where altering reality costs blood.

by Alexis Henderson 2024

3.43

28k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Academia 🏛️ Occult College ⚠️ Dangerous Mentor

An Arcane Inheritance

by Kamilah Cole • 2025

At an elite Gothic university, a scholarship student uncovers a secret society harvesting her magic.

3.46

7k+

🏛️ Dark Academia Campus 🗝️ Magical Secret Society 💭 Memory Loss Magic

An Arcane Inheritance 93%

At an elite Gothic university, a scholarship student uncovers a secret society harvesting her magic.

by Kamilah Cole 2025

3.46

7k+ ratings

🏛️ Dark Academia Campus 🗝️ Magical Secret Society 💭 Memory Loss Magic

A Study in Drowning

by Ava Reid • 2023

At a crumbling manor, a student learns her idol's masterpiece was stolen from a woman he silenced.

3.70

106k+

🕯️ Dark Academia 🏚️ Gothic Manor 📖 Literary Mystery

A Study in Drowning 93%

At a crumbling manor, a student learns her idol's masterpiece was stolen from a woman he silenced.

by Ava Reid 2023

3.70

106k+ ratings

🕯️ Dark Academia 🏚️ Gothic Manor 📖 Literary Mystery

Fallen Gods

by Rachel Van Dyken • 2025

Odin's daughter must destroy her Giant ex-fiancé next door to save her stepmother's life.

3.60

7k+

📖 Mythological Romance 📚 Dark Academia Fantasy ❤️ Enemies To Lovers

Fallen Gods 93%

Odin's daughter must destroy her Giant ex-fiancé next door to save her stepmother's life.

by Rachel Van Dyken 2025

3.60

7k+ ratings

📖 Mythological Romance 📚 Dark Academia Fantasy ❤️ Enemies To Lovers

River of Shadows

by Karina Halle • 2022

She bargains her freedom to Death for her father's life. Death demands a wife in return.

3.77

18k+

💀 Death God Romance 🕳️ Underworld Journey 🤝 Bargain With Death

River of Shadows 93%

She bargains her freedom to Death for her father's life. Death demands a wife in return.

by Karina Halle 2022

3.77

18k+ ratings

💀 Death God Romance 🕳️ Underworld Journey 🤝 Bargain With Death

Ninth House

by Leigh Bardugo • 2019

Yale hires a ghost-seer to police its magical secret societies. Then a girl is murdered.

4.00

408k+

🎓 Dark Academia 🔍 Occult Mystery 🕯️ Secret Societies

Ninth House 93%

Yale hires a ghost-seer to police its magical secret societies. Then a girl is murdered.

by Leigh Bardugo 2019

4.00

408k+ ratings

🎓 Dark Academia 🔍 Occult Mystery 🕯️ Secret Societies

Nocticadia

by Keri Lake • 2023

A scholarship to a gothic island academy puts Lilia near a pathologist who can only feel her.

4.19

174k+

🕯️ Dark Academia 👻 Gothic Horror 🎓 Student Professor

Nocticadia 93%

A scholarship to a gothic island academy puts Lilia near a pathologist who can only feel her.

by Keri Lake 2023

4.19

174k+ ratings

🕯️ Dark Academia 👻 Gothic Horror 🎓 Student Professor

The Coven

by Harper L. Woods • 2023

A witch bent on revenge bargains with the devil's vessel who runs her haunted academy.

3.71

96k+

📚 Dark Academia Fantasy ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Villain Love Interest

The Coven 92%

A witch bent on revenge bargains with the devil's vessel who runs her haunted academy.

by Harper L. Woods 2023

3.71

96k+ ratings

📚 Dark Academia Fantasy ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Villain Love Interest

Ruin

by Gillian Eliza West • 2024

A lethal touch. A deathless king. A bond that could destroy or save them both.

3.77

3k+

🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🗡️ Dark Romantasy 🌑 Mythic Underworld

Ruin 92%

A lethal touch. A deathless king. A bond that could destroy or save them both.

by Gillian Eliza West 2024

3.77

3k+ ratings

🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🗡️ Dark Romantasy 🌑 Mythic Underworld

King of Flesh and Bone

by Liv Zander • 2022

A death god commands a widow's flesh in his bone kingdom, but her hatred stays free.

3.61

23k+

🔗 Captor Captive Romance 💀 Death God Romance ⚠️ Dubious Consent

King of Flesh and Bone 92%

A death god commands a widow's flesh in his bone kingdom, but her hatred stays free.

by Liv Zander 2022

3.61

23k+ ratings

🔗 Captor Captive Romance 💀 Death God Romance ⚠️ Dubious Consent

Of Deathless Shadows

by K.M. Moronova • 2023

Terra's village falls, she merges with a trauma-shadow for an academy where love and violence fuse.

3.66

5k+

🌑 Dark Romantasy 🥀 Why Choose ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

Of Deathless Shadows 92%

Terra's village falls, she merges with a trauma-shadow for an academy where love and violence fuse.

by K.M. Moronova 2023

3.66

5k+ ratings

🌑 Dark Romantasy 🥀 Why Choose ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

A Stage Set for Villains

by Shannon J. Spann • 2026

To cure a Player's curse, she enters his magical death theater and strikes a dangerous bargain.

4.08

12k+

🖤 Dark Romantasy 🎭 Theatrical Fantasy 📖 Metafictional Fantasy

A Stage Set for Villains 92%

To cure a Player's curse, she enters his magical death theater and strikes a dangerous bargain.

by Shannon J. Spann 2026

4.08

12k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Romantasy 🎭 Theatrical Fantasy 📖 Metafictional Fantasy

Satanic Shadows

by Leigh Rivers • 2024

A human in a supernatural academy is bound to a shadow prince obsessed with her destruction.

4.10

10k+

🖤 Dark Romantasy 📖 Dark Academia Fantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers

Satanic Shadows 92%

A human in a supernatural academy is bound to a shadow prince obsessed with her destruction.

by Leigh Rivers 2024

4.10

10k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Romantasy 📖 Dark Academia Fantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers

A Touch of Darkness

by Scarlett St. Clair • 2019

A spring goddess loses a bet to the God of the Dead: make the Underworld bloom.

3.8

444k+

🖤 Hades And Persephone ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💔 Divine Forbidden Love

A Touch of Darkness 92%

A spring goddess loses a bet to the God of the Dead: make the Underworld bloom.

by Scarlett St. Clair 2019

3.8

444k+ ratings

🖤 Hades And Persephone ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💔 Divine Forbidden Love

The Exorcism of Faeries

by J.L. Vampa • 2025

A mortician discovers a flower in a corpse and joins masked anatomists fighting a faerie plague.

3.94

4k+

🕯️ Dark Academia 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Gothic Romance

The Exorcism of Faeries 92%

A mortician discovers a flower in a corpse and joins masked anatomists fighting a faerie plague.

by J.L. Vampa 2025

3.94

4k+ ratings

🕯️ Dark Academia 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Gothic Romance

Alchemy of Secrets

by Stephanie Garber • 2025

Urban legends predict her death at Halloween midnight. A hidden relic in Los Angeles might save her.

3.84

69k+

🖤 Dark Academia 🌙 Hidden Magical World 😈 Devil Bargains

Alchemy of Secrets 92%

Urban legends predict her death at Halloween midnight. A hidden relic in Los Angeles might save her.

by Stephanie Garber 2025

3.84

69k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Academia 🌙 Hidden Magical World 😈 Devil Bargains

House of Marionne

by J. Elle • 2023

Hiding outlawed magic in a deadly academy, she’s paired with an assassin who hunts her kind.

3.63

8k+

🖤 Dark Academia 🏰 Magical Boarding School 🔥 Forbidden Magic

House of Marionne 92%

Hiding outlawed magic in a deadly academy, she’s paired with an assassin who hunts her kind.

by J. Elle 2023

3.63

8k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Academia 🏰 Magical Boarding School 🔥 Forbidden Magic

Architecti

by Ruby Roe • 2025

To break her death contract, a reaper must kill her professor. The professor is her lover.

4.24

1k+

🏛️ Dark Academia 💀 Doomed Romance 🤝 Deal With The Devil

Architecti 92%

To break her death contract, a reaper must kill her professor. The professor is her lover.

by Ruby Roe 2025

4.24

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Dark Academia 💀 Doomed Romance 🤝 Deal With The Devil

How Does It Feel?

by Jeneane O'Riley • 2023

A biologist crashes into the Unseelie Court, where a dark prince claims her as his prisoner.

3.72

77k+

👑 Fae Court Intrigue 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🧬 Human In Fae Realm

How Does It Feel? 92%

A biologist crashes into the Unseelie Court, where a dark prince claims her as his prisoner.

by Jeneane O'Riley 2023

3.72

77k+ ratings

👑 Fae Court Intrigue 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🧬 Human In Fae Realm

Blood & Betrayals

by Jeanette Rose • 2025

A fae outcast enrolls at a magical university just as a killer begins hunting her lookalikes.

3.93

9k+

🖤 Dark Academia 🏛️ Magical University 🔪 Serial Killer Mystery

Blood & Betrayals 92%

A fae outcast enrolls at a magical university just as a killer begins hunting her lookalikes.

by Jeanette Rose 2025

3.93

9k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Academia 🏛️ Magical University 🔪 Serial Killer Mystery

Queen to the Sunless Court

by Avie Adams • 2025

A healer bargains with death to save a prince, drawing a god's obsession and a king's love.

3.97

581

🏛 Greek Myth Retelling 🌑 Underworld Setting 🌿 Healer Protagonist

Queen to the Sunless Court 92%

A healer bargains with death to save a prince, drawing a god's obsession and a king's love.

by Avie Adams 2025

3.97

581 ratings

🏛 Greek Myth Retelling 🌑 Underworld Setting 🌿 Healer Protagonist

Academy of the Forsaken

by Eva Chase • 2020

Repeating semester at a cursed college: she remembers this time, and she will tear it down.

4.03

493

🖤 Reverse Harem 📚 Dark Academia 🔄 Time Loop

Academy of the Forsaken 92%

Repeating semester at a cursed college: she remembers this time, and she will tear it down.

by Eva Chase 2020

4.03

493 ratings

🖤 Reverse Harem 📚 Dark Academia 🔄 Time Loop

The Song of the Marked

by S.M. Gaither • 2020

A plague-marked thief learns she's the lost queen and is taken by the king's deadliest enforcer.

3.89

26k+

🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🫂 Found Family 👑 Hidden Royal Identity

The Song of the Marked 92%

A plague-marked thief learns she's the lost queen and is taken by the king's deadliest enforcer.

by S.M. Gaither 2020

3.89

26k+ ratings

🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🫂 Found Family 👑 Hidden Royal Identity

Im Schatten der Wahrheit

by Merit Niemeitz • 2023

A Cambridge student falls for an immortal body thief while investigating his deadly secret society.

3.79

1k+

🖤 Dark Academia 🕯️ Secret Society 🐦 Body Hopping

Im Schatten der Wahrheit 92%

A Cambridge student falls for an immortal body thief while investigating his deadly secret society.

by Merit Niemeitz 2023

3.79

1k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Academia 🕯️ Secret Society 🐦 Body Hopping

Iron & Embers

by Helen Scheuerer • 2025

A poisoner at a brutal academy faces the warrior she's bound to and cannot forgive.

4.15

31k+

🕯️ Dark Academia 💕 Romantasy ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

Iron & Embers 92%

A poisoner at a brutal academy faces the warrior she's bound to and cannot forgive.

by Helen Scheuerer 2025

4.15

31k+ ratings

🕯️ Dark Academia 💕 Romantasy ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

A Game of Fate

by Scarlett St. Clair • 2020

When Hades bets on love, the mortal who tempts him is a goddess in hiding.

3.97

103k+

🖤 Hades And Persephone 🏛️ Modern Mythology ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine

A Game of Fate 92%

When Hades bets on love, the mortal who tempts him is a goddess in hiding.

by Scarlett St. Clair 2020

3.97

103k+ ratings

🖤 Hades And Persephone 🏛️ Modern Mythology ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine

House of Hearts

by Skyla Arndt • 2025

At a cursed gothic academy, an outsider hunts her best friend's killer among a secret society.

3.65

2k+

🔮 Dark Academia 🏰 Gothic Boarding School 💀 Generational Curse

House of Hearts 92%

At a cursed gothic academy, an outsider hunts her best friend's killer among a secret society.

by Skyla Arndt 2025

3.65

2k+ ratings

🔮 Dark Academia 🏰 Gothic Boarding School 💀 Generational Curse

A Deadly Education

by Naomi Novik • 2020

In a school that kills wizards, the most dangerous student is trying to be good.

3.93

225k+

🏫 Dark Magical School ✨ Magic With A Cost 🖤 Found Family

A Deadly Education 92%

In a school that kills wizards, the most dangerous student is trying to be good.

by Naomi Novik 2020

3.93

225k+ ratings

🏫 Dark Magical School ✨ Magic With A Cost 🖤 Found Family

Sorcery of Thorns

by Margaret Rogerson • 2019

Framed for murder, a library apprentice must trust a sorcerer and the demon who raised him.

4.04

161k+

📚 Sentient Libraries 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family

Sorcery of Thorns 92%

Framed for murder, a library apprentice must trust a sorcerer and the demon who raised him.

by Margaret Rogerson 2019

4.04

161k+ ratings

📚 Sentient Libraries 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family

Riot House

by Callie Hart • 2020

Sent to a gothic boarding school, a wounded girl becomes the obsession of its most dangerous boy.

3.84

28k+

🏛️ Dark Academia 🖤 Obsessive Hero 💔 Enemies To Lovers

Riot House 92%

Sent to a gothic boarding school, a wounded girl becomes the obsession of its most dangerous boy.

by Callie Hart 2020

3.84

28k+ ratings

🏛️ Dark Academia 🖤 Obsessive Hero 💔 Enemies To Lovers

Wicked Onyx

by Debbie Cassidy • 2026

She enters a deadly academy to reclaim her magic, but the law plans to execute her.

4.04

4k+

🩸 Cursed Bloodline 👻 Dead Girl Mystery 🤝 Found Family

Wicked Onyx 92%

She enters a deadly academy to reclaim her magic, but the law plans to execute her.

by Debbie Cassidy 2026

4.04

4k+ ratings

🩸 Cursed Bloodline 👻 Dead Girl Mystery 🤝 Found Family

Between Life and Death

by Jaclyn Kot • 2023

A raven steals a soul from the pyre. She sees it. The cloaked stranger sees her.

3.85

11k+

🥀 Dark Romantasy 🖤 Ancient Enemies To Lovers 💫 Fated Mates

Between Life and Death 92%

A raven steals a soul from the pyre. She sees it. The cloaked stranger sees her.

by Jaclyn Kot 2023

3.85

11k+ ratings

🥀 Dark Romantasy 🖤 Ancient Enemies To Lovers 💫 Fated Mates

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