Boarding School

This genre is for books that take place in boarding schools.

The Academy
What Happens After Midnight
I Have Some Questions for You
The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)
The Murders at Fleat House
Nobody in Particular
Anywhere (Dunbridge Academy, #1)
Maybe Meant to Be
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
This Book Kills
Flip: A Graphic Novel
All My Kisses for You (Lancaster Prep Next Generation #1)
When We Were Monsters
Misfit (Prep, #1)
The New Girl
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Looking for Alaska
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
Hex Hall (Hex Hall, #1)
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
I Go To A "Special" School
292 books — 146 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerDivergent by Veronica RothAcheron by Sherrilyn KenyonThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHalfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Books with boys that make you swoon
554 books — 275 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroLooking for Alaska by John GreenThe Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Fiction Set in a Boarding School
78 books — 94 voters
The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanHowl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesCarry On by Rainbow RowellMooncakes by Suzanne  WalkerEvery Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Harry Potter Alternatives
260 books — 65 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Set in a Boarding School in England
30 books — 18 voters
The Escapist by David PuretzWrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl WigginsAnxiety by Danny WinterWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAs Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
Gut Punchers
77 books — 22 voters


Jon Doust
The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep. Doust’s recognisably Australian contribution to the genre draws on his own experiences in a West Australian boarding school in this clever, polished, detail-rich debut novel. From the opening pages, the reader is wholly transported into the head of Jack Muir, a sensitive, sharp-eyed boy from small-town WA who is constantly measured (unfavourably) a ...more
Jon Doust, Boy on a Wire

Roald Dahl
If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.
Roald Dahl, Innocence

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