Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
Books about professors or university types
1 Possession
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 34,254 ratings
2 The Secret History
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 54,354 ratings
3 Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel'...
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 52,904 ratings
4 Lucky Jim
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 8,908 ratings
5 The Historian
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 121,273 ratings
6 Brideshead Revisited
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 32,832 ratings
7 Straight Man
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 11,725 ratings
8 Pnin
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 6,960 ratings
9 Faust: First Part
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 30,625 ratings
10 Pygmalion
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 36,565 ratings
11 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 12,511 ratings
12 Villette
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 21,700 ratings
13 Who's Afraid of Virginia Wo...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 23,464 ratings
14 Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel'...
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 36,870 ratings
15 Stoner
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 3,759 ratings
16 White Noise
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 36,740 ratings
17 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 3,205 ratings
18 Middlemarch: A Study of Pro...
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 47,251 ratings
18 Herzog
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 7,493 ratings
20 The Human Stain
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 14,357 ratings
21 Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wim...
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 7,656 ratings
22 Wonder Boys
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 17,651 ratings
23 Crossing to Safety
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 13,362 ratings
24 Pale Fire
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 15,896 ratings
25 Dead Poets Society
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 12,490 ratings
26 Changing Places
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
27 The Dante Club
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 21,200 ratings
28 On Beauty
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 27,636 ratings
29 The Professor's House
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 2,761 ratings
30 The Rebel Angels (Cornish T...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
30 The Magus
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 18,639 ratings
32 Small World
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 2,217 ratings
33 Moo
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3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 4,169 ratings
34 The Corrections
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 69,149 ratings
35 The Archivist
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3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
36 The Professor
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3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 5,162 ratings
37 To Sir, With Love
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
38 Matilda
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 196,224 ratings
39 An Instance of the Fingerpost
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 10,253 ratings
40 The Lake of Dead Languages
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 5,242 ratings
41 Graven Images
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 77 ratings
42 Fifth Business
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 6,467 ratings
43 The Housekeeper and the Pro...
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 8,080 ratings
44 A Discovery of Witches (All...
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 98,280 ratings
45 Special Topics in Calamity ...
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 20,486 ratings
46 Old School
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 5,377 ratings
47 The History Man
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3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 396 ratings
48 The Chocolate War (Chocolat...
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3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 19,455 ratings
49 The Wire In The Blood (Tony...
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 3,990 ratings
49 The Chosen
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 42,411 ratings
51 One L: The Turbulent True S...
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 3,258 ratings
52 The Rule of Four
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3.15 of 5 stars 3.15 avg rating — 18,756 ratings
53 Well-Schooled in Murder (In...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 8,477 ratings
54 Asterios Polyp
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 8,968 ratings
55 The Lost Symbol (Robert Lan...
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3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 189,378 ratings
56 Disgrace
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 30,167 ratings
57 The Dying Animal
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 3,301 ratings
58 The Paper Chase
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3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 177 ratings
59 Miss Pym Disposes
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 2,379 ratings
60 Nice Work
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
61 Ravelstein
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
62 Unseen Academicals (Discwor...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 16,289 ratings
63 Foreign Affairs
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 2,495 ratings
64 A Single Man
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 7,051 ratings
65 A Scholar of Magics (A Coll...
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 667 ratings
66 The Name of the Rose
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 103,744 ratings
67 Lolita
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 285,398 ratings
68 As She Climbed Across the T...
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 2,772 ratings
69 The Beekeeper's Apprentice ...
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 23,885 ratings
70 The Mummy
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 24,952 ratings
71 The Translator
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 417 ratings
72 The End of Mr. Y
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6,220 ratings
72 I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 20,138 ratings
74 Beasts
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
75 The Robber Bride
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 18,078 ratings
76 The Dream of Scipio
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,966 ratings
77 W;t
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 5,095 ratings
78 A Wizard of Earthsea (Earth...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 68,758 ratings
79 Dead Poets Society
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 120 ratings
80 The Silent World of Nichola...
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 982 ratings
81 The Pelican Brief
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 154,564 ratings
82 The Mermaids Singing (Tony ...
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 4,967 ratings
83 The Chaneysville Incident
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 252 ratings
83 Hannelore Takes Note
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4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
83 To the Lighthouse
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 44,098 ratings
86 Blue Angel
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3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
86 Arcadia
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 7,972 ratings
86 Quicksilver (The Baroque Cy...
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 17,228 ratings
89 The Glass Bead Game
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 10,654 ratings
90 Professor Unrat
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 598 ratings
91 The Professor's Daughter: A...
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 127 ratings
92 Purple Hibiscus
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 8,169 ratings
93 2666
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 10,889 ratings
94 The Djinn in the Nightingal...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
94 Equal Rites (Discworld, #3)
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 41,682 ratings
96 Wilt
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 3,145 ratings
97 Bimbos of the Death Sun (Ja...
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 1,271 ratings
97 Enchantment
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 15,450 ratings
99 Obedience
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3.07 of 5 stars 3.07 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
100 Masks
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Comments (showing 1-7 of 7) (7 new)

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message 1: by Velvetink (new)

Velvetink So many books on this list that look interesting. Will have to wishlist them all.


message 2: by Susanna (new)

Susanna The Professor and the Madman is non-fiction, not a novel.

Y'all want me to remove it?


message 3: by Susanna (new)

Susanna Because this is supposedly a list for novels?


message 4: by Themis-Athena (new)

Themis-Athena Personally I'd concur ... Hubert, you created the list: Is this supposed to be for fiction only, or are nonfiction entries OK? (In the latter case, might I suggest that the list's description be amended accordingly?)


message 5: by Nadd (new)

Nadd Is Gabriel's Inferno the only book that looks modern while the others look 'classic'?


message 6: by Susanna (new)

Susanna I Claudius???????????


message 7: by Themis-Athena (new)

Themis-Athena Susanna wrote: "I Claudius???????????"

Teehee. Well, maybe because Claudius was a scholar at heart and wrote a history of Rome?


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