2026 Cosmic Academia Reading List (Books, Movies, Video Games)

2026 Cosmic Academia Reading List (Books, Movies, Video Games)

Welcome, everyone! In this video, I’m sharing what I plan to read this year for Cosmic Academia. The main goal is to get more suggestions from you on what you think could fit the channel’s ideas.

Thank you for the suggestions and for taking the time to share your ideas:
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Books featured in the video:
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H. P. Lovecraft – The Complete Fiction / Selected Works: https://amzn.to/4sNE4d3
Robert W. Chambers – The King in Yellow: https://amzn.to/4bLtmgW
Ambrose Bierce – An Inhabitant of Carcosa: https://amzn.to/4jOnHce
Ted Chiang – The Story of Your Life: https://amzn.to/4bLtz3I
Jeff VanderMeer – Annihilation: https://amzn.to/49HxNXv
Stephen King – The Jaunt: https://amzn.to/4pKu81i
Stephen King – The Mist: https://amzn.to/4pKu81i
Stephen King – Under the Dome: https://amzn.to/4b79XXF
Stephen King – 11/22/63: https://amzn.to/3LSAfmb
Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic: https://amzn.to/49yOpAE
Christopher Priest – The Prestige: https://amzn.to/3YID38v
Edgar Allan Poe – The Masque of the Red Death: https://amzn.to/4jQtYUL
Erich von Däniken – Were the Gods Astronauts?: ??
Rose Metal Press – Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: https://amzn.to/4bD1ziH
Jeff VanderMeer – Wonderbook: https://amzn.to/4a1MHt1
Andy Weir – Project Hail Mary: https://amzn.to/3LppasN
Dan Simmons – The Terror: https://amzn.to/3ZfVp0G
William Hope Hodgson – The House on the Borderland: https://amzn.to/49N8KCx
Robert E. Howard – Conan (Conan the Barbarian stories): https://amzn.to/49KVgHm
H.P. Lovecraft & Martin S. Warnes – The Black Tome of Alsophocus: ??
Nicholas Binge – Ascension: https://amzn.to/4bG1VVV
Michel Faber – Under the Skin: https://amzn.to/4bG1WZZ
J. G. Ballard – The Drowned World: https://amzn.to/4jNhld6
Ian McEwan – What We Can Know: https://amzn.to/49qprVu

Well, guys, I’ve been thinking about doing something new in YouTube, not just in terms of aesthetics, but also ideas, and I came up with Cosmic Academia. You see, I’ve always liked some Dark Academia themes, but they always felt too romanticized to me. Too much “love books” energy, and some aspects felt a bit childish, which honestly pushed me away from it. What I wanted instead was something more practical, closer to ideas like Brutalism or Industrialism. Less decoration, more structure. That’s where the idea of creating something different started. I’ve always been a fan of cosmic horror. Lovecraft, The Lighthouse, Annihilation, and especially Arrival, which is easily one of my favorite movies ever. I watched it in theaters during an 11:00 PM session the day before it was released, and I bought the book the very next day. When I started my music channel, I had some shapeless ideas in mind, and I was so focused on the music creation that I barely thought about anything else. Now that I understand better how YouTube works and how everything connects, I decided to add this new layer to the project and I plan to make this my full-time job next year. So I hope you guys help me with this. With some works that fit the themes and aesthetics, thoughts, habits, ideas, whatever comes to mind. What do you think?

My music channel (Lovecraftian Dreams):    / @lovecraftian_dreams  

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