Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly themed post first created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
I’m going rogue on this week’s theme since I just recently shared a list of series I was DNF’ing. Instead I’m sharing a list of 2025 dark academia releases that I just can’t wait to check out!





- Enigma by Runyx – April 29, 2025
- The Incandescent by Emily Tesh – May 13, 2025
- School of Shards by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko – June 17, 2025
- The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw – July 22, 2025
- Arcana Academy by Elise Kova – July 22, 2025





- A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid – August 5, 2025
- Katabasis by R.F. Kuang – August 26, 2025
- Spellcaster by Jaymin Eve – September 23, 2025
- Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber – September 30, 2025
- A Rather Vengeful Accord by Danielle Knight – November 18, 2025

The Library at Hellebore is probably my most anticipated book on your list. I’m also surprised by how many dark academia books are coming out next year!
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Dark academia seems to be sticking around as one of the hot subgenres and I love it! The Library at Hellebore is definitely one of my most anticipated reads of the summer 😄
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What a list! I am so hyped for most of these; Katabasis, & Arcana Academy mainly, and I’ll be checking the rest of them out 🙂
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Katabasis sounds fantastic! The synopsis brings to mind Ninth House and Hell Bent from Leigh Bardugo!
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