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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,122,882 ratings — published 1992
Dear Committee Members (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 22,667 ratings — published 2014
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 302,658 ratings — published 1965
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 542,305 ratings — published 2022
Moo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.47 — 8,678 ratings — published 1995
The Lecturer's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.47 — 967 ratings — published 2001
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
by (shelved 4 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,063 ratings — published 1935
Hell Bent (Ninth House Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 193,366 ratings — published 2023
Straight Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,081 ratings — published 1997
The Cheese Monkeys (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,999 ratings — published 2001
Lucky Jim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 33,082 ratings — published 1954
Blue Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,929 ratings — published 2000
Wonder Boys (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,487 ratings — published 1995
The Academy (The Academy #1)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.65 — 145,662 ratings — published 2025
It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 422,906 ratings — published 2019
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.63 — 114,719 ratings — published 2017
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,313,639 ratings — published 1963
The Maidens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 467,968 ratings — published 2021
The Subject of Malice (Lila Maclean Academic Mystery #4)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 110 ratings — published 2019
The Spirit in Question (Lila Maclean Academic Mystery #3)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 134 ratings — published 2018
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 442,165 ratings — published 2017
Old School (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,361 ratings — published 2003
The Art of Vanishing (Lila Maclean Academic Mystery #2)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 291 ratings — published 2017
The Semester of Our Discontent (Lila Maclean Academic Mystery #1)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 622 ratings — published 2016
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,303 ratings — published 2009
The Groves of Academe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.33 — 477 ratings — published 1952
Penelope (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 2.67 — 2,964 ratings — published 2012
Gentlemen and Players (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,642 ratings — published 2005
Death Without Tenure (A Karen Pelletier Mystery #6)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.54 — 313 ratings — published 2009
Decline and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 16,581 ratings — published 1928
Bellwether (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,171 ratings — published 1996
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 570,510 ratings — published 2011
Prep (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.45 — 76,148 ratings — published 2005
Admission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.42 — 8,448 ratings — published 2009
Oleanna (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.60 — 10,250 ratings — published 1993
The History Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,125 ratings — published 1975
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,658 ratings — published 1999
Pnin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,180 ratings — published 1957
Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,549 ratings — published 1975
Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.59 — 580 ratings — published 1997
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 86,590 ratings — published 1990
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 281,230 ratings — published 2005
The Witches of Cambridge (The Witches of Cambridge, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 652 ratings — published 2026
The Thoroughbreds (The Academy #2)
by (shelved 1 time as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 852 ratings — published 2026
The Adjunct (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.40 — 1,415 ratings — published 2026
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,937 ratings — published 2008
Kingfisher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as academic-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,004 ratings — published 2025
Heart the Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 475,006 ratings — published 2025
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as academic-fiction)
avg rating 4.67 — 274,546 ratings — published 2019