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Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
Yale Needs Women
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
Lolita
The Bluest Eye
Black Boy
Wise Blood
Ulysses
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
The Tender Bar: A Memoir
The Aeneid
The Odyssey
Textual Power by Robert ScholesProtocols of Reading by Robert ScholesAnthology of Modern Chinese Poetry by Michelle  YehA New Handbook of Literary Terms by David MikicsOrthokostá by Thanassis Valtinos
Theory of Literature
19 books — 1 voter

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
400 books — 296 voters

Ninth House by Leigh BardugoThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Discovery of Witches by Deborah HarknessThe Book of Life by Deborah HarknessSmall Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Fiction Featuring Yale University
13 books — 7 voters
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareThe Ice Storm by Rick MoodyShare the Moon by Sharon StruthTrue Blend by Joanne DeMaioI Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Books Set in Connecticut
313 books — 85 voters

William F. Buckley Jr.
[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breath away. He fondled the word "fascist" as though he had come up with a Dead Sea Scroll vouchsafing the key word to the understanding of God and Man at Yale. In a few sentences he used the term thrice. "Mr. Buckley has done Yale a great service" (how I would tire of this pedestrian rhetorical device), "and he may well do the cause of liberal education in America an even greater service, by stating t ...more
William F. Buckley Jr., God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

Owen   Johnson
What would be the natural thing? A man goes to college. He works as he wants to work, he plays as he wants to play, he exercises for the fun of the game, he makes friends where he wants to make them, he is held in by no fear of criticism above, for the class ahead of him has nothing to do with his standing in his own class. Everything he does has the one vital quality: it is spontaneous. That is the flame of youth itself. Now, what really exists?" "...I say our colleges to-day are business coll ...more
Owen Johnson, Stover at Yale

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