Recs if you like The Faculty Lounge...

This list features book covers illustrated or designed by New York-based artist Vi-An Nguyen. Her work boasts bold typography, minimalist illustrations, and bright, contracting colours on beautifully textured backgrounds. Her cartoons are often featured in The New Yorker.

Includes dark academia, fantasy, and literary fiction--but takes place on a campus or in some way relates to student/teaching life.

Books that take place in and around university or college campuses (and I'm including some boarding schools). Perfect for back to school season in the fall.

A Birmingham book club’s picks for 2026!

Also titled: Books featured in Abbott Elementary or ones that feel like something the characters would read but that was too long of a title