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.
created by ruthless
last updated September, 2026
The Murders at Fleat House
Lucinda Riley
The Faculty Lounge
Jennifer Mathieu
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis
Vladimir
Julia May Jonas
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai
If We Were Villains
M.L. Rio
Unprecedented Times
Malavika Kannan
The Incendiaries
R.O. Kwon
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
Old School
Tobias Wolff
Make Your Home Among Strangers
Jennine Capó Crucet
Trust Exercise
Susan Choi
Disorientation
Elaine Hsieh Chou
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Blue Angel
Francine Prose
Moo
Jane Smiley
The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides
As She Climbed Across the Table
Jonathan Lethem
Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall
Suzette Mayr
The Groves of Academe
Mary McCarthy
Sweet Days of Discipline
Fleur Jaeggy
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
My Education
Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers
Harvard Square
André Aciman
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