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
Vladimir
The Fortune Seller
Either/Or
The Adult
Groundskeeping
The Rabbit Club
The Professor
The Latinist
Ghosts of Harvard
How I Won a Nobel Prize
The World Cannot Give
The English Experience
Kill All Your Darlings
The Resemblance
The Secret History
Stoner
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
The Idiot
The Deal (Off-Campus, #1)
If We Were Villains
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Normal People
Lucky Jim
Real Life
Babel
The Mistake (Off-Campus, #2)
The Marriage Plot
The Maidens
Dear Committee Members
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
6 books — 1 voter
Easy by Al JarreauWe're in This Love Together Sheet Music by Keith StegallDispatches from the Former Evil Empire by Richard ThrelkeldSouth to Selma by Gary G. YerkeyStill Time to Live by Gary G. Yerkey
Ripon College
100 books — 1 voter

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckBeloved by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Cornell University
119 books — 24 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Cambridge University
238 books — 62 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughStoner by John  WilliamsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Campus Days
402 books — 299 voters


Bradley   Campbell
Victimhood culture makes it hard to avoid wrongdoing. If you have any kind of privilege, the social world is full of peril; you always risk giving offense. Engage in small talk and you might be guilty of a microaggression. Cook a new dish or adopt a new hairstyle and you might be guilty of cultural appropiation. Teach about something unpleasant and you might be guilty of triggering someone. Express your religions or political beliefs and you might be guilty of violence. Whatever you do, you must ...more
Bradley Campbell, The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars

... campus administrators were modeling distorted thinking. Two categories of First Amendment cases on campus encourage this kind of thinking quite directly: overreaction and overregulation.
Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

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