Tag Archives: Dark Academia

Exclusive Cover + Excerpt Reveal: A Darker Mischief by Derek Milman

Today on the site I’m thrilled to be revealing the cover for Derek Milman’s upcoming dark academia YA thriller, A Darker Mischief, which releases from Scholastic on July 2, 2024! Here’s the story:

The Honeys meets The Secret History in a work of dark academia like no other — a boarding school thriller about a queer teen from Mississippi who finds himself swept into a world of old money, privilege, and the secret society at the heart of it all.

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Fave Five: Queer Dark Academia

For even more recs for dark academia fans, check out this post of Queer YA for Dark Academia Lovers.

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Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven (Bks)

All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters (Bks)

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (Bks)

The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton (Bks)

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever (Bks)

Bonus: Coming in 2024, An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson (Bks) and With Love & Mischief by Derek Milman (Bks)

Fave Five: Queer YA for Dark Academia Lovers

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

People Like Us by Dana Mele

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Bonus: Coming in 2022, My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham