#actually i read them all last year

thelogicofthetrance:

Campus novel ~ recommendations

A campus novel is a piece of fiction which mainly takes place in a campus or university. Its themes and plot benefit from the fascinating atmosphere typically associated with academic environments in western cultures

Since a lot of us are great fans of The Secret History and similar works, here’s a list of maybe lesser-known campus novels from various times and genres that I strongly recommend if you feel in the mood!

Contemporary campus novels:

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• The Idiot by Elif Batuman
• The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
• Abigail by Magda Szabó
• White Noise by Don DeLillo (not pictured)

If you want a surreal/fantasy twist:

• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko (not pictured)

Classic campus novels:

• A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
• Compulsion by Meyer Levin
• Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
• Maurice by E.M. Forster
• The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal