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The Secret History by Donna TarttPossession by A.S. ByattStoner by John WilliamsLucky Jim by Kingsley AmisBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
498 books — 606 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
400 books — 296 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttPossession by A.S. ByattGaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersCampusland by Scott JohnstonLucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Academia in Literature
136 books — 90 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 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
327 books — 56 voters
Excellent Sheep by William DeresiewiczAcademically Adrift by Richard ArumFail U. by Charles J. SykesThe Tyranny of the Meritocracy by Lani GuinierThe Chosen by Jerome Karabel
Controversies in Higher Education
171 books — 43 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
The Iowa Writers' Workshop
142 books — 33 voters
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather FawcettEmpire of Shadows by Jacquelyn BensonThe Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India HoltonEmily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather FawcettEmily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Adventure academia
42 books — 31 voters

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
One for the Money by Janet EvanovichIn Spite of Myself by Christopher PlummerMiss Plum and Miss Penny by Dorothy Evelyn SmithVisions of Sugar Plums by Janet EvanovichSave Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
52 Book Club 2024: September Mini Challenge - Professor Plum
105 books — 21 voters

Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain ReynardGabriel's Rapture by Sylvain ReynardGabriel's Redemption by Sylvain ReynardKissing Tolstoy by Penny ReidForbidden Attraction by S.R. Watson
Hot College Professors
15 books — 13 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriOn The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus CopernicusOration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della MirandolaThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Alma Mater Studiorum: Università di Bologna
61 books — 11 voters

Straight Man by Richard RussoThe Wedding People by Alison EspachElla Price's Journal by Dorothy BryantPeter by Gina Marinello-SweeneyDirty Sext by Stephanie Brother
College Professors in Fiction
24 books — 10 voters
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi PirandelloRobert Schumann by John WorthenThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxMax Bruch by Christopher Fifield
Bonn University
99 books — 9 voters

Millionaire Janitor by Lorn BergstresserCompass Rose by Carly Eccles SheafferThe Oracle of Spring Garden Road by Norrin M. Ripsman
Books By Professors
3 books — 4 voters
Love, Theoretically by Ali HazelwoodUnder One Roof by Ali HazelwoodStuck with You by Ali HazelwoodBelow Zero by Ali HazelwoodLove on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
Academia
15 books — 2 voters

American Dervish by Steven ReeseThe Coming of the Dragon by Rebecca BarnhouseThe Book of the Maidservant by Rebecca BarnhousePeaceweaver by Rebecca BarnhouseMyth and Knowing by Scott A. Leonard
YSU Authors
5 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

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