This list features characters and/or authors who identify as people with disabilities, people of color, queer folks, indigenous peoples, people from a lower socioeconomic status, etc. The inspiration for this list came from noticing that the vast majority of campus/academic novels about college and university life only represent a small sliver of current higher education populations. I particularly want to add more novels that were published before 1960 and that take place outside of the context of the United States.