Best Campus Novels

Description
Recommend good novels with a college/university setting.
1
Gaudy Night
de Dorothy L. Sayers
5,458 membres
150 critiques
½ 4.3
8 Members
smcwl, thorold, aulsmith, cbl_tn, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explications
thorold: Classic mystery set in a women's college in Oxford in the 30s
2
Le maître des illusions
de Donna Tartt
20,316 membres
556 critiques
4.1
6 Members
smcwl, sturlington, Dilara86, JuliaMaria, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
3
Un tout petit monde
de David Lodge
2,114 membres
34 critiques
3.9
5 Members
smcwl, thorold, sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963
Explications
thorold: Virtuoso send-up of the international conference circuit, with a strong hint of medievalism
4
Retour à Brideshead
de Evelyn Waugh
12,572 membres
265 critiques
4
6 Members
rarm, smcwl, thorold, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar
Explications
thorold: Only a short section is set in Oxford, but it's the bit we all remember
5
Des garçons épatants
de Michael Chabon
4,307 membres
104 critiques
4
5 Members
hipdeep, smcwl, sturlington, susanbooks, jeffza
6
Possession
de A.S. Byatt
12,958 membres
289 critiques
4
5 Members
smcwl, thorold, merrystar, JuliaMaria, ahef1963,sturlington
Explications
thorold: A book with characters who are academics, rather than a campus novel, perhaps
7
Jeu de société
de David Lodge
1,814 membres
21 critiques
3.8
4 Members
smcwl, thorold, Dilara86, ahef1963
Explications
thorold: Academia meets manufacturing industry
8
Pensées secrètes
de David Lodge
1,306 membres
17 critiques
½ 3.5
4 Members
smcwl, thorold, Dilara86, JuliaMaria
9
Le grand départ de Miss Pym
de Josephine Tey
1,418 membres
58 critiques
3.8
4 Members
cbl_tn, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
10
Changement de décor
de David Lodge
1,932 membres
36 critiques
½ 3.7
4 Members
smcwl, thorold, sturlington, Dilara86
Explications
thorold: Birmingham (UK) and Berkeley during the student troubles of the sixties
11
Lucky Jim.
de Kingsley Amis
5,800 membres
155 critiques
½ 3.7
4 Members
smcwl, thorold, sturlington, ahef1963
Explications
thorold: The classic redbrick campus novel of the fifties
12
Allez les mages!
de Terry Pratchett
6,265 membres
186 critiques
3.9
3 Members
hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
13
Le bel âge de miss Brodie
de Muriel Spark
5,204 membres
169 critiques
½ 3.7
4 Members
Cecrow, cbl_tn, sturlington, ahef1963,thorold
Explications
thorold : A brilliant novel, but surely school not campus.
14
Zuleika dobson / Une histoire d'amour à Oxford
de Max Beerbohm
1,684 membres
37 critiques
½ 3.4
3 Members
rarm, smcwl, thorold
15
Le chat et les pigeons
de Agatha Christie
4,169 membres
84 critiques
½ 3.6
3 Members
cbl_tn, sturlington, ahef1963
16
Tam Lin
de Pamela Dean
1,947 membres
73 critiques
4
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
17
De la beauté
de Zadie Smith
9,357 membres
225 critiques
½ 3.6
3 Members
smcwl, Dilara86, JuliaMaria
18
La chute du British Museum
de David Lodge
925 membres
21 critiques
½ 3.5
3 Members
smcwl, thorold, Dilara86
Explications
thorold: PhD student tries to finish his thesis without enlarging his family
19
The Masters
de C.P. Snow
553 membres
11 critiques
4
2 Members
smcwl, jeffza
20
Un rôle qui me convient
de Richard Russo
3,492 membres
99 critiques
4
3 Members
smcwl, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
21
Justice poétique
de Amanda Cross
432 membres
8 critiques
½ 3.5
3 Members
smcwl, cbl_tn, JuliaMaria
22
Mort à Harvard
de Amanda Cross
556 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.3
3 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria, ahef1963
23
The Fall of the Kings
de Ellen Kushner
1,021 membres
29 critiques
½ 3.6
2 Members
rarm, aulsmith
24
Les lois de l'attraction
de Bret Easton Ellis
3,585 membres
36 critiques
½ 3.6
2 Members
jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda
25
Disgrâce
de J. M. Coetzee
10,864 membres
274 critiques
3.8
3 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria, ahef1963
26
Pnine
de Vladimir Nabokov
4,211 membres
80 critiques
3.9
2 Members
smcwl, susanbooks
27
Hangsaman
de Shirley Jackson
792 membres
22 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
28
Auprès de moi toujours
de Kazuo Ishiguro
22,812 membres
938 critiques
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, susanbooks
29
Year of the Griffin
de Diana Wynne Jones
1,618 membres
27 critiques
4
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
30
Matou amoureux
de Tim O'Brien
704 membres
14 critiques
½ 3.4
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
31
Blue Angel
de Francine Prose
1,002 membres
31 critiques
½ 3.3
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
32
Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror
de James Hynes
415 membres
9 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
33
The Lecturer's Tale
de James Hynes
494 membres
8 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
34
La Vierge dans le jardin
de A.S. Byatt
1,749 membres
32 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
thorold, JuliaMaria
Explications
thorold: Am dram in a provincial "new university" in Coronation year
35
The History Man
de Malcolm Bradbury
834 membres
9 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
Explications
thorold: Brilliant send-up of the right-on revolutionaries of the early seventies (later turned into an excellent TV adaptation with Anthony Sher)
36
Blumenberg
de Sibylle Lewitscharoff
76 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, JuliaMaria
Explications
thorold: Philosophical trouble at the University of Münster, Germany, in the eighties
37
Moo
de Jane Smiley
2,541 membres
60 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
38
Bunny
de Mona Awad
1,781 membres
78 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
39
Eating People Is Wrong
de Malcolm Bradbury
421 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.4
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
Explications
thorold: Bradbury's first go at the campus novel: a bit too Lucky Jim, but very funny in parts
40
Porterhouse, ou, La vie de collège
de Tom Sharpe
1,260 membres
21 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
Explications
thorold: Cambridge college damaged in freak condom explosion
41
Pictures from an Institution
de Randall Jarrell
462 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
42
The Accursed
de Joyce Carol Oates
932 membres
37 critiques
½ 3.3
Member
WSB7
Explications
WSB7: Wonderful postmodern tale that takes place on and around the Princeton(NJ) campus and involves some actual university people.
43
A Footnote to Plato
de Tina Lee Forsee
10 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.3
Member
TinaLeeForsee
44
Le Complexe d'Antigone
de Amanda Cross
399 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria
45
The Question of Max
de Amanda Cross
371 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.4
2 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria
46
Book
de Robert Grudin
210 membres
2 critiques
3.9
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
47
Thérapie
de David Lodge
1,391 membres
20 critiques
½ 3.6
2 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria
48
Stepping Westward
de Malcolm Bradbury
155 membres
1 critique
½ 3.4
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
Explications
thorold: Bradbury does his stint in America
49
A Trap for Fools
de Amanda Cross
359 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria
50
The Groves of Academe
de Mary McCarthy
333 membres
7 critiques
3.2
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
51
Une paix séparée
de John Knowles
12,770 membres
190 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Cecrow
52
Rainbows End
de Vernor Vinge
2,984 membres
109 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
53
Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme
de James Joyce
21,201 membres
217 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Cecrow
54
Prep
de Curtis Sittenfeld
5,194 membres
155 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
susanbooks
55
La tache
de Philip Roth
6,566 membres
96 critiques
3.8
Member
Cecrow
56
Les mystères de Pittsburgh
de Michael Chabon
4,088 membres
64 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
57
The Virgins
de Pamela Erens
158 membres
8 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
susanbooks
58
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
de Alexander McCall Smith
890 membres
18 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, cbl_tn,sturlington
59
Le Collège de magie
de Caroline Stevermer
1,399 membres
34 critiques
3.8
Member
merrystar
60
Feu pâle
de Vladimir Nabokov
7,937 membres
139 critiques
4.2
Member
susanbooks
61
The Musubi Murder
de Frankie Bow
51 membres
11 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
cbl_tn
Explications
cbl_tn: The first book in a humorous cozy mystery series whose protagonist is a professor at a Hawaiian university.
62
Le roman d'Oxford
de Javier Marías
876 membres
25 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Oxford in the eighties, as seen by a visiting lecturer from Spain
63
The Technologists
de Matthew Pearl
546 membres
60 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
cbl_tn
Explications
cbl_tn: A historical mystery set in the early years at MIT.
64
Carved in Bone
de Jefferson Bass
1,212 membres
51 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
cbl_tn
Explications
cbl_tn: First in a series of crime novels featuring the University of Tennessee's Anthropological Research Facility (popularly known as the Body Farm).
65
The Body Lies
de Jo Baker
237 membres
16 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
66
Lucifer with a Book
de John Horne Burns
46 membres
3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
67
Grandeur et décadence
de Evelyn Waugh
3,623 membres
59 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
68
Places Where They Sing
de Simon Raven
53 membres
2 critiques
3.8
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: King's College, Cambridge, thinly disguised, in the sixties
69
La physique des catastrophes
de Marisha Pessl
6,586 membres
305 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
70
An Experiment in Love
de Hilary Mantel
559 membres
18 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Anorexic student in London hall of residence
71
Der gestohlene Abend
de Wolfram Fleischhauer
15 membres
1 critique
½ 3.3
Member
JuliaMaria
72
Stripping Penguins Bare
de Michael Carson
61 membres
3.2
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Campus life in Aberystwyth in the sixties
73
Stoner
de John Williams
6,696 membres
354 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Hmm. I think this just slips in as a campus novel, bu you could argue that it's another one that's more of a novel about an academic.
74
À feu vif
de Emma Donoghue
446 membres
11 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Young woman student in Ireland answers an ad for a flatshare
75
Mating
de Norman Rush
1,308 membres
18 critiques
3.8
Member
sturlington
76
Sanshirô
de Natsume Soseki
525 membres
16 critiques
3.9
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Tokyo University in 1907
77
Boussole
de Mathias Énard
541 membres
16 critiques
3.8
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Technically this novel never leaves the narrator’s bedroom, but it is really a novel about academics, and it riffs on the plot of David Lodge’s Small World
78
The Truants
de Kate Weinberg
349 membres
14 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
79
La septième fonction du langage
de Laurent Binet
769 membres
38 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
80
Conflits de famille
de Alison Lurie
435 membres
6 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
smcwl
81
All's Well
de Mona Awad
556 membres
22 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
82
Le roman du mariage
de Jeffrey Eugenides
5,268 membres
288 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
smcwl
83
Election
de Tom Perrotta
942 membres
31 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
84
The Cornish Trilogy
de Robertson Davies
1,031 membres
19 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
smcwl
85
Coming from Behind
de Howard Jacobson
131 membres
1 critique
3.2
Member
smcwl
86
Hearts and Minds
de Rosy Thornton
53 membres
7 critiques
3.9
Member
smcwl
87
La Règle de quatre
de Ian Caldwell
8,089 membres
173 critiques
3.1
Member
smcwl
88
La vie en sourdine
de David Lodge
1,113 membres
55 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
smcwl
89
Liaisons étrangères
de Alison Lurie
1,454 membres
34 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
smcwl
90
Jeux de maux
de David Lodge
702 membres
7 critiques
3.8
Member
smcwl
91
Rates of Exchange
de Malcolm Bradbury
323 membres
2 critiques
3.8
Member
smcwl
92
The Affair
de C.P. Snow
331 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
smcwl
93
À tout jamais
de Graham Swift
439 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
smcwl
94
The Russian Girl
de Kingsley Amis
187 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
smcwl
95
It Will Come to Me
de Emily Fox Gordon
61 membres
4 critiques
3.1
Member
smcwl
96
Maurice
de E. M. Forster
4,158 membres
72 critiques
3.9
Member
aulsmith,thorold
Explications
thorold : there's a Cambridge section, but it isn't really a campus novel
97
Panique à Porterhouse
de Tom Sharpe
649 membres
7 critiques
3.2
Explications
thorold : very poor sequel to Porterhouse Blue
98
Zombies Calling
de Faith Erin Hicks
157 membres
8 critiques
½ 3.6
99
Twilight
de Stephenie Meyer
58,268 membres
2,264 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963,rarm ,smcwl ,merrystar ,sturlington