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 Idiot
The Deal (Off-Campus, #1)
If We Were Villains
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
Lucky Jim
Real Life
Normal People
The Mistake (Off-Campus, #2)
Babel
The Marriage Plot
Dear Committee Members
Prep
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

King Street Run by V.R. LingThe Secret History by Donna TarttAll Mortal Greatness by Nelson CoverFor the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth  GeorgeThe Theory of Death by Faye Kellerman
Best Campus Crime Thrillers
13 books — 10 voters
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 — 58 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
239 books — 63 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
412 books — 302 voters


Interpreting a campus lecture as violence is a choice, and it is a choice that increases your pain with respect to the lecture while reducing your options for how to respond.
Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

Jean Baudrillard
American campuses. Like Disneyland, they are an ideal micro-city, the artificial ideal type of an intellectual biosphere. Like any realization of an ideal, they end up secreting a fierce coercion ('political correctness') and an internal intoxication, with its poisons and endorphins. ...more
Jean Baudrillard, Fragments

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