Weekly Question - Sep 3 - Back to School

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

What are your favorite books set in or around a school, college, or university?

[Miles]

Jack Sheffield series
Amari and the night brothers by B B Alston
Anything written by Abida Jaigirdar
X-Men graphic novels
All our hidden gifts series by Caroline O'Donoghue

[Pam]

The obvious one - Harry Potter!

[Kathy]

I've enjoyed Special Topics in Calamity Physics, The Secret History, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks among others.

[Joy D]

I've enjoyed:
Babel: An Arcane History
Ink and Bone
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
The Eternal Audience of One
Looking for Alaska
Stoner
Nervous Conditions
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
If We Were Villains
Madam

[Anastasia]

The Schoolmance series was fun.

[Kendra]

Sideways Stories from Wayside School
A Deadly Education and series
A Discovery of Witches and series

[Demetra]

If We Were Villains was a favorite of mine last year.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Just remembered that because of a challenge to read a graphic novel, I read Heartstopper: Volume One - actually the whole series, and just watched the Netflix version, which is largely set in an English secondary school. Kind of amazing that they still wear uniforms with ties and everything! It's a very sweet story, although rather unrealistic that hormonal teenage boys wouldn't progress beyond kissing. The series includes representations of multiple LGBTQ characters and addresses some serious mental health issues, so of course it's now being banned in some US schools, just where it might be most needed.

[Book Concierge]

Ban This Book ... a group of middle-school kids fight against book banning by starting their own "locker library."

[Denise]

A Separate Peace, Prep, True Biz, and the Gifted School (sort of takes in school).

[Sherri]

The Love Hypothesis
Love, Theoretically
A Deadly Education

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Then there are the classic Up the Down Staircase, To Sir, With Love, and The Water Is Wide.

[Mandy]

I just finished Gabriel's Inferno.

I enjoyed it. The characters are complex and flawed.

[Rose]

Absolutely adore A Deadly Education and both the sequels.
Magic for Liars is spectacular as well.

[Phair]

Robin P wrote: "Then there are the classic Up the Down Staircase, To Sir, With Love, and The Water Is Wide."

I definitely remember liking these titles back in the day.

[Heather L]

Book Concierge wrote: "Ban This Book ... a group of middle-school kids fight against book banning by starting their own "locker library.""

Loved this one! I would also vote for the Harry Potter series, as well as the Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter that starts with I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You.

[Thomas]

Harry Potter and although many of her fans consider it a low point I really enjoyed The Lying Game by Ruth Ware