HEA Book Club Sep. 2025 Nomination Thread

Welcome to the September 2025 HEA Book Club nomination thread! This month's theme is **Dark Academia OR Light Academia.**

Many of us are headed Back to School in September, so let's read a romantasy set in a school! (Or a university, or featuring a scholarly protagonist.)

**Nominations**

* Make sure HEA has not read a book by the author previously. You can check [this Goodreads Shelf](https://www.goodreads.com/group/bookshelf/107259-r-fantasy-discussion-group?order=d&per_page=30&shelf=hea&sort=date_added&view=main). You can take an author that was read by a different book club, however.

* Leave one book suggestion per top comment. Please include title, author, and a short summary or description. (You can nominate more than 1 if you like, just put them in separate comments.)

* Please include bingo squares if possible.

I will leave this thread open for 2 days, and compile top results into a Google poll to be posted on Thur. 10-Jul-2025. Have fun!

**Reminders:**

This month (July 2025), we're reading [I Got Abducted By Aliens And Now I'm Trapped In A Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming](https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasy/search?q=title%3A(%22HEA%22+AND+Book)&restrict_sr=on&sort=new). Midway discussion will be next Thursday, 17-Jul-2025.

**What is the HEA Book Club?** Every odd month, we read a fantasy romance book and discuss! You can read about it in [our reboot thread here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/9Bjmx7YEih).