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Which books remind you most of university -- your own, or university in general -- and/or of campus life, or your/a given university's interaction(s) with the city where it is located?
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list created February 5th, 2010
by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (votes) .
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And then: I certainly don't want to flaunt anything, but I've purposely listed a few books by teachers who have particularly impacted me, because I can't think of university without thinking of these teachers as well. God knows not every prof is a "born" (or even a halfway decent) teacher, but undoubtedly some of them are -- and some are impressive personalities into the bargain, though I'd rather have a great teacher than an impressive personality for a prof -- and their universities are the richer for them as well. For purposes of this list, that's really all that should matter. If you can't think of university without remembering a given person (and that person happens to have published something), that's really all it takes for their name to belong on this list ...

I have put two classics of the English Public School, the ramp up to the gentile British education (which in my case I have not got).
Wish I could think of more like Smiley's "Moo", expositions of the middle-American cow college.

Oxford University: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Cambridge University: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Cornell University: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Iowa Writers' Workshop: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Università di Bologna: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
Bonn University: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...
More to come in due course. If anybody feels like pitching in, though, by all means go ahead!

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/34...
and Univ. of Chicago alumni:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...

I'm not familiar with it, but if it reminds you of university, by all means go ahead! (There's a tab up top next to "all votes" -- using that tab, everybody can add books to a list.)

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/34...
and Univ. of Chicago alumni:
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There's a new one for St. Louis University alumni and facultiy as well:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/28...
And Taft alumni:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/17...
Anyone can add books to this list.