Academic

1. The formal definition is that text should consist of arguments and debate, rather than simply present factual knowledge. Non-fiction studies, arguments, views.

2. Many books (mainly fiction) with a school setting have this tag.



See also:
* education
* high school
* school stories
...more

The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Raving
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Orientalism
The Great Gatsby
The Communist Manifesto
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Romeo and Juliet
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Prince
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
Animal Farm
1984
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Republic

Alok   Mishra
Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an emphatic entry in the public domain with so many expectations, has been circumambulating the corridors of university classrooms and the decision war-rooms of the government-funded and apparently biased award bodies.
Alok Mishra

Kazuo Ishiguro
Why did you have to prove a thing like that, Miss Emily? Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” (Ch.22 p.201)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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