Best Campus Novels

thorold: Classic mystery set in a women's college in Oxford in the 30s

thorold: Virtuoso send-up of the international conference circuit, with a strong hint of medievalism

thorold: Only a short section is set in Oxford, but it's the bit we all remember

thorold: A book with characters who are academics, rather than a campus novel, perhaps

thorold: Academia meets manufacturing industry

thorold: Birmingham (UK) and Berkeley during the student troubles of the sixties

thorold: The classic redbrick campus novel of the fifties

thorold : A brilliant novel, but surely school not campus.

thorold: PhD student tries to finish his thesis without enlarging his family

thorold: Am dram in a provincial "new university" in Coronation year

thorold: Brilliant send-up of the right-on revolutionaries of the early seventies (later turned into an excellent TV adaptation with Anthony Sher)

thorold: Philosophical trouble at the University of Münster, Germany, in the eighties

thorold: Bradbury's first go at the campus novel: a bit too Lucky Jim, but very funny in parts

thorold: Cambridge college damaged in freak condom explosion

WSB7: Wonderful postmodern tale that takes place on and around the Princeton(NJ) campus and involves some actual university people.

thorold: Bradbury does his stint in America

cbl_tn: The first book in a humorous cozy mystery series whose protagonist is a professor at a Hawaiian university.

thorold: Oxford in the eighties, as seen by a visiting lecturer from Spain

cbl_tn: A historical mystery set in the early years at MIT.

cbl_tn: First in a series of crime novels featuring the University of Tennessee's Anthropological Research Facility (popularly known as the Body Farm).

thorold: King's College, Cambridge, thinly disguised, in the sixties

thorold: Anorexic student in London hall of residence

thorold: Campus life in Aberystwyth in the sixties

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.

thorold: Young woman student in Ireland answers an ad for a flatshare

thorold: Tokyo University in 1907

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

thorold : there's a Cambridge section, but it isn't really a campus novel

thorold : very poor sequel to Porterhouse Blue