Slap on your billowing cape and old-fashioned spectacles, brush up on your ancient Greek, carefully place a few of The Right Books behind you as props, and join us for Part 1 of a mega-round-up of dark academia books. In Part 1, we'll be discussing Queen Donna's masterpiece The Secret History, the OG Dark Academia novel that launched a thousand rip-offs, and in Part 2 we'll be evaluating the merits of four of those rip-offs (Mona Awad's Bunny, Alex Michaelides' The Maidens, M.L. Rio's If We Were Villains, and Katy Hays' The Cloisters)!