We’re three weeks into Dark Academia month and pivoting from the lack of new adaptations to the ones we want. From Ninth House and The Atlas Six to The Maidens, Bunny (plus its sequel), These Violent Delights, and The Honeys, we map the smartest book-to-screen plays—plus some spicy reader confessions (DNFs, trophy shelves, and the dusty corner).
We dig into:
- Leigh Bardugo’s Alex Stern/Ninth House: Yale, secret societies, class tension, and occult edges tailor-made for prestige TV.
- Mona Awad’s Bunny (+ the new sequel): cult-classic campus horror with a tone that could swing from satire to nightmare.
- Olivie Blake’s The Atlas Six: found-family frenemies, the Library of Alexandria, and character-driven magic—screaming “ensemble show.”
- Alex Michaelides’ The Maidens: Cambridge, a too-charming professor, and a one-and-done thriller film.
- Micah Nemerever’s These Violent Delights: 1970s queer psychological spiral—two knockout leads could carry a festival-circuit hit.
- Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys: boarding-school hive-minds and identity; YA-leaning horror with sharp claws.
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