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 (Alex Stern, #1)
Normal People
Babel
Lucky Jim
Real Life
The Maidens
Dear Committee Members
Prep
Vladimir
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
402 books — 299 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
328 books — 58 voters

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

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreightThey Wish They Were Us by Jessica  GoodmanThe League of Frightened Men by Rex StoutSwimming with the Sharks by Debbie Reed FischerSisterhood Above All by Kathleen  Barber
Hazing in fiction
31 books — 4 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
11 books — 8 voters


... campus administrators were modeling distorted thinking. Two categories of First Amendment cases on campus encourage this kind of thinking quite directly: overreaction and overregulation.
Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

College towns [are] all the same in that way; same burger, different wrapper.
Sheri Webber, Devil Went Down: And Hell Came Running

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