The list doesn't have to be exhaustive. It also misses the vita nostra series, which is interesting as an example of the same subgenre occurring outside the anglosphere.

The Secret History is generally regarded as the prototype for the modern subgenre though.

No of course it isn't exhaustive I wouldn't want or expect that from this kind of article.

> The Secret History is generally regarded as the prototype for the modern subgenre though.

Well, but that's why I mentioned possession. I know the secret history is considered the original dark academia, but possession predates it, is retrospectively just as firmly within this genre as it is understood now, and while not as famous is probably as influential on authors within it. It's a striking omission in an overview of the history of the genre.

Vita Nostra definitely fits the genre descriptively but I think it's more connected to a russian fantasy/slavic magical realism tradition that there isn't really a name for and that we only get a little bit of translated decades later. To me it shares a lot more with like mariam petrosyan and sergei lukyanenko than it does donna tartt.