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
Catalina
Vladimir
Either/Or
The Fortune Seller
The Rabbit Club
How I Won a Nobel Prize
Ghosts of Harvard
The Resemblance
Kill All Your Darlings
The Adult
The Professor
Groundskeeping
Delphi
The World Cannot Give
The Secret History
The Idiot
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
Stoner
The Deal (Off-Campus, #1)
If We Were Villains
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Normal People
Lucky Jim
Babel
Real Life
Dear Committee Members
Prep
Small World (The Campus Trilogy, #2)
Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
The Iowa Writers' Workshop
141 books — 32 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughFranny and Zooey by J.D. SalingerStoner by John  Williams
Campus Days
395 books — 292 voters

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi PirandelloRobert Schumann by John WorthenThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxMax Bruch by Christopher Fifield
Bonn University
99 books — 9 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
10 books — 8 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
327 books — 56 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
5 books — 1 voter


Parul Wadhwa
Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.
Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade

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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