Hello and welcome to my first reading challenge! It was great attempting to create my own list for once, and I may make more after I finish some of the other reading challenges I'm working on. The books on the list were discovered via Goodreads, Bookstagram, Booktube, Booktok, and a variety of other websites.
I hope you enjoy it, and if you decide to participate, please tag me on social media (@theshadesofacademia) so I can see your progress as well! Remember to use the hashtag #TheShadesofAcademiaReads (The Shades of Academia Reads) so that we may find and encourage one another!
This list contains 30 books, some of which may be outside your comfort zone, which is completely fine! You may always swap one of them out for another favorite book of yours!
The Shades of Academia's Reading Challenge – list of books
Macbeth by Shakespeare
A Secret History by Donna Tartt
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar G. Wilde
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (which so happens to be the book for this month!)
Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
The Truants by Kate Weinberg
The Maidens By Alex Michaelides
Black Chalk by Christopher Yates
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Black Hour by Lori Rader- Day
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicke
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Internment by Samir’s Ahmed
The Shades of Academia Book Club will be reading these books together. If you would like to join us here is the link to rsvp for a spot for November 15, our first meeting: The Shades of Academia Book Club
I hope you like this challenge, and I can't wait to discuss all of these novels with you! Have you had a chance to read any of them? If you're going to, please let me know on instagram! Make a story post or even dm me! Until next time my friends!
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