Fiction involving college/acedemia
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Anonymous
| Just read Wonder Boys. Fantastic! Loved the setting! Suggestions? |
Anonymous
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What genre? Dark academia is an entire sub genre of fiction. See one GoodReads list here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/128819.Dark_Academia
If you want a faster, fun read, Ali Hazelwood writes contemporary romance that always features a female heroine working in STEM. Her fist book took place at Stanford. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, what do you want in your colleges novels? |
Anonymous
| Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher are both SO good. One is sort of a sequel to the other. |
Anonymous
| Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, hilarious. |
Anonymous
| New England White. Steven L Carter of Emperor of Ocean Park fame. Complicated and long. But well written with great character development. |
Anonymous
| Stoner by John Edward Williams is either a hilarious book or a heart-breaking one. Written in the 1940s, it feels contemporary. |
Anonymous
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If you want a wild ride…
Several really trauma-laden college kids, a sport that is like hockey and lacrosse, overworked coach and other adults, lots of batsh&! crazy stuff happens, plus the mafia. Time period about 2006. —-> The Foxhole Court, book one of the All for the Game trilogy, by Nora Sakavic. |
Anonymous
| Straight Man, by Richard Russo. |
Anonymous
| They're both on the Dark Academia list posted earlier, but the first two that jumped to my mind were The Secret History and Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson. |
Anonymous
| The Secret History by Donna Tartt |
Anonymous
Along those lines, you might also like Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. |
Anonymous
+1 such a fantastic book |
Anonymous
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+2 for The Secret History
Also The Maidens and The It Girl |
Anonymous
| Tam Lin by Pamela Dean |