Campus

A campus novel, also known as an academic novel, is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. The genre in its current form dates back to the early 1950s.

My Last Innocent Year
Vladimir
The Fortune Seller
Either/Or
The Adult
Groundskeeping
The Rabbit Club
The Professor
The Latinist
Ghosts of Harvard
How I Won a Nobel Prize
The World Cannot Give
The English Experience
Kill All Your Darlings
The Resemblance
The Secret History
Stoner
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
The Deal (Off-Campus, #1)
The Idiot
If We Were Villains
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
Normal People
The Mistake (Off-Campus, #2)
Lucky Jim
Babel
Real Life
Dear Committee Members
The Marriage Plot
Vladimir
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienGaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Oxford University
329 books — 57 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughStoner by John  WilliamsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Campus Days
413 books — 302 voters

Franny and Zooey by J.D. SalingerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathMy Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
post-graduation angst
7 books — 1 voter
Easy by Al JarreauWe're in This Love Together Sheet Music by Keith StegallDispatches from the Former Evil Empire by Richard ThrelkeldSouth to Selma by Gary G. YerkeyStill Time to Live by Gary G. Yerkey
Ripon College
100 books — 1 voter

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckBeloved by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Cornell University
119 books — 24 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Cambridge University
240 books — 64 voters


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Bradley   Campbell
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Charles Bukowski
“ I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed you with theory and never told you how hard the pavements were. A college education could destroy an individual for life. Books could make you soft. When you put them down, and really went out there, then you needed to know what they never told you. ...more ”
― Charles Bukowski , Ham on Rye

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