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
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienGaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Oxford University
329 books — 58 voters

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.A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorThe Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Iowa Writers' Workshop
141 books — 32 voters

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreightThey Wish They Were Us by Jessica  GoodmanThe League of Frightened Men by Rex StoutSwimming with the Sharks by Debbie Reed FischerSisterhood Above All by Kathleen  Barber
Hazing in fiction
31 books — 4 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


Shirley Jackson
I decided that I was going to fewer student parties after I ripped part of the sleeve out of my black dress helping a freshman climb a fence. By the end of the first semester, what I wanted to do most in the world was invite a few of my husband’s students over for tea and drop them down the well.
Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons

Parul Wadhwa
I am a palette of emotions; I remember how I have cov-eted to be free from the school rules. I look around to see people casually dressed up and walking with an aim maybe to make a better career or just add fame of DU degree like me. The campus is buzzing with freshman and activity. I just hope, these corridors, hallways, and passages don’t see me trip-ping and falling any day. I feel more comfortable standing in between the crowd of people moving. Like nobody is paying any heed. You can be your ...more
Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade

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