I have been looking for a book/series that is set in a academic institute. Like Hogwarts in Harry Potter.
Or for example, The Will of The Many by James Islington. I really love the books, because of interactions between the students/teachers. The stakes. The maneuvers the protagonist pulls off to advance. It's really exciting. And honestly? The background mystery plot? Excellent. I also really loved reading Red Rising.
I guess you could say Percy Jackson is also technically like that but not exactly Academic. You get the idea though.
In terms of mystery, I guess I love The Tainted Cup. Fun characters, fun story and lots of twists and stuff.
Would really like some good reccomendations.
by Miserable_Smile1161
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Not exactly academic, but you might like the mood of the Flavia De Luce series. It follows an Very Eccentric VERY English 12 year old girl who is a skilled chemist (and occasional poisoner) and solves mysteries. Of them, as Chimney Sweepers Comes to Dust is set in a boarding school, but all of them have fun and are more youthful and YA friendly. They are not children’s books though, if I had to describe it, it would be like Agatha Christie wrote a charming capricious young lady as a lead detective in her books.
Not like The Goldfinch which definitely academic and definitely a mystery but I don’t know if you would like it given the other books you mentioned.
Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik. It does the whole magic school thing objectively better than *Harry Potter* for my money, and I say that as a Potter fan. Novik’s characterization is better, her plotting is better, her magic system is actually fleshed out and makes sense, and it doesn’t drag on for too long.
Each book, in my opinion, is genuinely better than the previous, and it starts at an already-high mark.
Book one is called *A Deadly Education*.