It’s back to school for the kiddos in the valley and it’s my favorite time of year. I love wandering through the school supplies, smelling the paper and admiring the perfect rainbows of pens and pencils. I’ve never met a new notebook that I didn’t want to take home. In celebration, here are some of my favorite gothic academia novels. Before you tell me I need to include "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt and "A Study in Drowning" by Ava Reid, I’ll stop you and tell you that they are still in my to-be-read (TBR) pile. The books I haven’t read yet are a delicious promise to my future self.

Found on several Chapter One Staff Pick shelves is "Babel" by R. F. Kuang, and it’s a favorite for good reason. In a fantastical version of 1800’s Oxford University, magic is created using language, spec

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