Fiction involving college/acedemia

[Anonymous]

Just adding ‘+1’ votes for
the Last Enchantments
Crossing to Safety
The David Lodge books, which are also great reads for laughs

[Anonymous]

The Liar by Stephen Fry

[Anonymous]

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

[Anonymous]

This is fantasy, but A Discovery of Witches takes place at Oxford. The main characters are professors, though the classroom isn’t a huge part of the story. The Bodleian Library plays a significant role and the lab in which several characters work is important. In later books, the main character’s best friend at Yale becomes part of the story.

It’s very different and dark at times.

[Anonymous]

The Latinist

I didn’t love it, but the author actually wrote poems in ancient Greek for this book, which very much impressed me. It highlights the backstabbing competition that academia can be!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Ahhhh, one of my favorites. Boarding school, not college, but really fantastic coming of age story.

[Anonymous]

White Noise - Don Delillo
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Half of a Yellow Sun -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

[Anonymous]

Recent dark academia recommendation:
Bad Habits by Amy Gentry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is fantasy, but A Discovery of Witches takes place at Oxford. The main characters are professors, though the classroom isn’t a huge part of the story. The Bodleian Library plays a significant role and the lab in which several characters work is important. In later books, the main character’s best friend at Yale becomes part of the story.

It’s very different and dark at times.

This sounds wonderful! I just ordered a copy.

[Anonymous]

somewhat of a stretch, The Historian

another yes for The Secret History. audio-book is good too.

[Anonymous]

Vladimir.

[Anonymous]

publish and perish by James Haynes is a fun read

[Anonymous]

Batya Gur is one of my favorite authors. Each one of the early books in her mystery series focuses on a different, relatively closed community, with its own culture and often unspoken rules. The Literary Murder — a Critical Case is the second book in the series.

[Anonymous]

The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides

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It Girl by Ruth Ware