Campus Days (400 books)

Which books remind you most of university -- your own, or university in general -- and/or of campus life, or your/a given university's interaction(s) with the city where it is located?

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1	The Secret History by Donna Tartt 4.15 avg rating — 1,012,218 ratings score: 5,924, and 60 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 4.05 avg rating — 1,205,769 ratings score: 3,279, and 33 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,100 ratings score: 2,354, and 25 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Stoner by John Williams 4.35 avg rating — 242,433 ratings score: 1,624, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 3.96 avg rating — 238,989 ratings score: 1,613, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Possession by A.S. Byatt 3.90 avg rating — 84,199 ratings score: 1,511, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 3.48 avg rating — 124,295 ratings score: 1,499, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 38,166 ratings score: 1,446, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1) by Jean Webster 4.13 avg rating — 75,213 ratings score: 1,328, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton 3.98 avg rating — 14,888 ratings score: 1,287, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 3.75 avg rating — 31,990 ratings score: 1,206, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum 4.17 avg rating — 152,512 ratings score: 1,187, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 3.79 avg rating — 230,416 ratings score: 1,149, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Campusland by Scott Johnston (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 984 ratings score: 1,099, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis 3.72 avg rating — 51,507 ratings score: 1,075, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.63 avg rating — 79,800 ratings score: 1,047, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner 4.16 avg rating — 50,760 ratings score: 1,021, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Straight Man by Richard Russo (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30,325 ratings score: 952, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	White Noise by Don DeLillo 3.86 avg rating — 126,494 ratings score: 904, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee 4.06 avg rating — 73,401 ratings score: 902, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3) by Philip Roth 3.92 avg rating — 45,548 ratings score: 879, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1) by David Lodge 3.81 avg rating — 9,169 ratings score: 867, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Love Story (Love Story, #1) by Erich Segal 3.65 avg rating — 64,121 ratings score: 867, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3) by L.M. Montgomery 4.28 avg rating — 192,846 ratings score: 863, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 404,847 ratings score: 844, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe 3.46 avg rating — 28,388 ratings score: 811, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12) by Dorothy L. Sayers 4.19 avg rating — 31,984 ratings score: 801, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Idiot by Elif Batuman 3.64 avg rating — 106,308 ratings score: 800, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Indecent by Corinne Sullivan (Goodreads Author) 3.16 avg rating — 1,834 ratings score: 800, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 3.74 avg rating — 191,484 ratings score: 797, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.93 avg rating — 5,863,198 ratings score: 768, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 115,794 ratings score: 765, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Group by Mary McCarthy 3.68 avg rating — 17,258 ratings score: 745, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Professor by Charlotte Brontë 3.54 avg rating — 29,633 ratings score: 688, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1) by Matthew Pearl (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 42,715 ratings score: 686, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 778,545 ratings score: 686, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3) by Philip Pullman 4.29 avg rating — 167,952 ratings score: 673, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) by Lev Grossman (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 277,718 ratings score: 655, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Herzog by Saul Bellow 3.76 avg rating — 22,836 ratings score: 611, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 3.88 avg rating — 29,158 ratings score: 611, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Slightly Out of Tune by Idir Aitsahalia (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 57 ratings score: 600, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Maurice by E.M. Forster 4.08 avg rating — 57,555 ratings score: 585, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 3.88 avg rating — 28,840 ratings score: 555, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Lessons by Naomi Alderman (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 2,920 ratings score: 554, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	A Separate Peace by John Knowles 3.60 avg rating — 231,684 ratings score: 550, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 4.22 avg rating — 257,450 ratings score: 546, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Wit by Margaret Edson 4.14 avg rating — 17,409 ratings score: 522, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 3.83 avg rating — 75,790 ratings score: 499, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Rush by Lisa Patton (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 6,983 ratings score: 492, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield 4.33 avg rating — 3,160 ratings score: 490, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	On Beauty by Zadie Smith 3.78 avg rating — 90,620 ratings score: 490, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1) by Chaim Potok 4.07 avg rating — 97,059 ratings score: 488, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Equal Rites (Discworld, #3) by Terry Pratchett 4.07 avg rating — 198,580 ratings score: 487, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 4.25 avg rating — 100,921 ratings score: 479, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Tam Lin by Pamela Dean 3.84 avg rating — 5,821 ratings score: 479, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 9,298 ratings score: 472, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 3.79 avg rating — 491,453 ratings score: 462, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz 4.01 avg rating — 41,825 ratings score: 455, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh 3.83 avg rating — 15,849 ratings score: 423, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Moo by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author) 3.47 avg rating — 8,566 ratings score: 421, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley, #5) by Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 17,984 ratings score: 400, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) by Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 554,015 ratings score: 393, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates 3.63 avg rating — 5,188 ratings score: 392, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	The World According to Garp by John Irving (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 238,225 ratings score: 386, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The History Boys by Alan Bennett 3.95 avg rating — 11,499 ratings score: 364, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 3.97 avg rating — 194,645 ratings score: 358, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster 3.46 avg rating — 2,821 ratings score: 327, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Proof by David Auburn really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20,188 ratings score: 324, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	The Professor's House by Willa Cather 3.78 avg rating — 10,125 ratings score: 302, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Mary, Everything (The Flapper Covenant, #1) by Cassandra Yorke (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 218 ratings score: 300, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	Dream School (Girl, #2) by Blake Nelson (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 333 ratings score: 297, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	The Harrad Experiment by Robert H. Rimmer 3.39 avg rating — 464 ratings score: 292, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes 3.47 avg rating — 959 ratings score: 291, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood 4.06 avg rating — 37,399 ratings score: 290, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald 3.96 avg rating — 1,842 ratings score: 290, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 74,339 ratings score: 289, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 397,559 ratings score: 286, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace 3.85 avg rating — 24,377 ratings score: 285, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus 4.22 avg rating — 65,072 ratings score: 285, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31,140 ratings score: 284, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay 3.66 avg rating — 30,546 ratings score: 282, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Tom Brown's Schooldays (Tom Brown, #1) by Thomas Hughes 3.45 avg rating — 3,030 ratings score: 279, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright 3.69 avg rating — 216 ratings score: 279, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn 3.54 avg rating — 946 ratings score: 276, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind, #8) by Terry Pratchett 4.01 avg rating — 58,666 ratings score: 274, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) by Graeme Simsion (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 592,426 ratings score: 272, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus by Vanessa Grigoriadis 3.77 avg rating — 323 ratings score: 271, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth 3.68 avg rating — 4,049 ratings score: 264, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	The Dying Animal by Philip Roth 3.62 avg rating — 13,232 ratings score: 263, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña 3.78 avg rating — 3,688 ratings score: 256, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann 3.64 avg rating — 3,404 ratings score: 239, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen 3.79 avg rating — 18,601 ratings score: 234, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	Ravelstein by Saul Bellow 3.63 avg rating — 4,196 ratings score: 227, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	The Dean's December by Saul Bellow 3.57 avg rating — 1,512 ratings score: 223, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.83 avg rating — 85,699 ratings score: 212, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears 3.94 avg rating — 27,046 ratings score: 208, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Hard Wired: A Crash Course in Small College Football by Jebb A. Rebal (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 67 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Liliana (Liliana, #1) by Neva Squires-Rodriguez (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 110 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	The Musubi Murder (Professor Molly Mysteries, #1) by Frankie Bow (Goodreads Author) 3.48 avg rating — 309 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym 3.93 avg rating — 3,262 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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400 books · 296 voters · list created February 5th, 2010 by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (votes) .

Tags: academics, alma-mater, alumni, amherst, ann-arbor, berkeley, bologna, bonn, brown, cambridge, campus, chicago, college, columbia, cornell, duke, east-anglia, emory, georgetown, harvard, heidelberg, ivy, ivy-league, iww, mit, mount-holyoke, northwestern, notre-dame, oxbridge, oxford, pepperdine, prague, princeton, professors, salamanca, scripps, smith, sorbonne, stanford, students, teachers, town-and-gown, tulane, ucla, university, usc, wesleyan, yale

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message 1: by Lobstergirl (new)

Feb 08, 2010 04:39PM

Great idea for a list. I feel like there are hundreds we're missing.

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message 2: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Feb 09, 2010 01:58AM

There must be! So many great places of learning ... there's no way they didn't leave their imprint on the cities where they're located -- and on literature, of course. And it's not just the likes of Harvard and Yale, or Oxbridge and the Sorbonne for that matter!

And then: I certainly don't want to flaunt anything, but I've purposely listed a few books by teachers who have particularly impacted me, because I can't think of university without thinking of these teachers as well. God knows not every prof is a "born" (or even a halfway decent) teacher, but undoubtedly some of them are -- and some are impressive personalities into the bargain, though I'd rather have a great teacher than an impressive personality for a prof -- and their universities are the richer for them as well. For purposes of this list, that's really all that should matter. If you can't think of university without remembering a given person (and that person happens to have published something), that's really all it takes for their name to belong on this list ...

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message 3: by Thom (new)

Jun 14, 2010 05:37AM

Themis-Athena wrote: "There must be! So many great places of learning ... there's no way they didn't leave their imprint on the cities where they're located -- and on literature, of course. And it's not just the likes..."

I have put two classics of the English Public School, the ramp up to the gentile British education (which in my case I have not got).

Wish I could think of more like Smiley's "Moo", expositions of the middle-American cow college.

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message 4: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jun 27, 2012 06:15AM

FWIW, I've started creating a series of lists for individual universities:

Oxford University: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Cambridge University: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Cornell University: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Iowa Writers' Workshop: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Università di Bologna: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Bonn University: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...

More to come in due course. If anybody feels like pitching in, though, by all means go ahead!

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message 5: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jun 28, 2012 01:37AM

I just noticed this one for Scripps College Faculty and Alums:

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...

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message 6: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jun 28, 2012 01:39AM

And there's University of Chicago Law School - Faculty:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/34...

and Univ. of Chicago alumni:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...

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message 7: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jun 28, 2012 01:57AM

Oh yes, cool -- thanks for mentioning those!

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message 8: by Cheyenne (new)

Sep 17, 2012 03:58AM

Just thought I would add Starter for Ten because it is very funny and a great read

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message 9: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Sep 17, 2012 05:22AM

This Girl Loves Books wrote: "Just thought I would add Starter for Ten because it is very funny and a great read"

I'm not familiar with it, but if it reminds you of university, by all means go ahead! (There's a tab up top next to "all votes" -- using that tab, everybody can add books to a list.)

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message 10: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Dec 07, 2012 07:05AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2012 06:32AM

Lobstergirl wrote: "And there's University of Chicago Law School - Faculty:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/34...

and Univ. of Chicago alumni:
http..."

There's a new one for St. Louis University alumni and facultiy as well:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/28...

And Taft alumni:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/17...

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message 11: by Lobstergirl (new)

Feb 23, 2013 05:04PM

A Separate Peace is set at a high school. Is the list limited to post high school education?

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message 12: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Mar 23, 2013 03:46PM

Definitely post-high school only (and sorry for the belated reply). Removed.

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message 13: by Lobstergirl (new)

Dec 18, 2015 10:22PM

Is nonfiction allowed?

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message 14: by Lobstergirl (new)

May 03, 2020 08:51PM

Othello takes place on a campus?

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message 15: by Liam (new)

Nov 30, 2022 12:59PM

This is supposed to about 'campus' or college/university, definitely third level education not secondary or high school books - I thought it was supposed to be novels there are a lot of non fiction books here, but can anyone explain why any of the following are on this list:

William Shakespeare, Othello
Chaim Potok, The Chosen
Margaret Edison, Wit
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System
Heather McDonald, The Diversity Dilemma
Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Richard Farina, Been Down So Long it Looks like Up to Me
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and other Essays
E M Forster, The Longest Journey
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Julian Barnes, A Sense of an Ending
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Frantz Fanon, Wretched if the Earth
Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
P G Wodehouse, the Inevitable Jeeves
Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
David Foster Wallace, a supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Lea Wait, Shadows at the Fair

The following novels listed are all novels associated with high school or its equivalent in the UK or elsewhere:

Alan Bennett, The History Boys
Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
Curtis Shittenfeld, Prep
Kate Lowe, The Furies
R F Delderfield, To Serve Them all My Days
Lev Grossman, The Magicians
James Hinton. goodbye Mr Chips
N H Kleinbaun, Dead Poets Society
David Lodge, Changing Places
Corinne Sullivan, Indecent
Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays
John Knowles, A Separate Peace

This selection is only from the first 200 books listed and is probably not exhaustive as I grew bored as the extent of wrongly listed books became apparent.

What is the point of starting these lists if you aren't going to monitor or keep track of items posted? I stopped at item 198 because I thought these might have been posted first and thus you would expect the originators or monitors of the list to have been taking an interest!? Maybe some of these books were posted as a joke to see if anyone would notice!? Is there any way that one can suggest to Goodreads that they delegate a list because it is total crap?! Maybe nobody cares? Does anybody care?

There is nothing wrong with a list of books relating to university experiences or fiction set there or histories of university in the abstract or in particular institutions. But this list does not help anyone interested in those subjects to find relevant books. It just wastes vast amount of time.

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message 16: by Chrissy (new)

Oct 03, 2023 08:22PM

Changing Places and The Magicians both take place at college/university level places, not high school.

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message 17: by Liam (new)

Oct 04, 2023 05:18AM

Chrissy wrote: "Changing Places and The Magicians both take place at college/university level places, not high school."

I admit that I confused David Lodge's book with 'Vice Versa' very careless and stupid of me. I still wonder about 'The Magicians' as it is about a high school senior who goes to Magician college - which is surely stretching the meaning of a campus/university novel to its limit? In Ireland and the UK the word 'college' is regularly attached to secondary schools (12-18 years) though I can not say for sure what Mr. Grossman meant by the appellation.

Even conceding that these errors it doesn't really change the bulk of my complaint which no one has bothered to respond to - so I am very grateful for your response.

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message 18: by Lobstergirl (new)

Oct 05, 2023 08:04PM

Lobstergirl wrote: "Othello takes place on a campus?"

I removed Othello but I don't have time to remove others which are wrongly on the list.

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message 19: by Liam (new)

Oct 06, 2023 04:11AM

Lobstergirl wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Othello takes place on a campus?"

I removed Othello but I don't have time to remove others which are wrongly on the list."

I don't intend to make work for anyone - I am just amazed that anyone added them to a list of campus novels!

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