I've been binge reading campus novels and I'd like you to recommend me some more. So far I've read Porterhouse Blue; Lucky Jim; Harvard Square; The Secret History; This Side of Paradise (I guess it fits the tag somewhat); and Pnin.
Campus Novel Thread
Stoner
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Is it really a campus novel, though?
Not quite "campus" novels, but ones where the college scene features prominently:
The way of all flesh
The adventures of Auggie March
Of Human Bondage
Portrait of the Artist as a young man
The pale king
The corrections
Under western eyes
Wonder Boys
Also, Indignation
i would say not but i can see someone debating that
stoner is the big one that comes to mind.
Isn't The Pale King about a dude working at a company?
There's a novella at the center of it about a college kid finding unironic redemption through studying accounting
Darconville’s Cat
A Separate Peace.
my novel desu
havent read it yet, but Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Richard Fariña. Thomas Pynchon dedicated GR to him, if you didnt already know.
The Rules of Attraction
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Thought you said Camus
Lucky Jim
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Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution. Also since youve read Lucky Jim, (you) should probably also cap One Fat Englishman.
A Good School by Richard Yates
The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge (Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work)
I've got The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy too, but haven't read it yet.
McCarthy is actually satirized in the Jarrell book above your post. FWIW.
Nabokov's Glory has great depictions of life at Cambridge
Zuleika Dobson. A must.
Except OP already referred to it as a novel he's read. Also, One Fat Englishman's better, i.e. funnier. And that's confining [our]selves to the K Amis oeuvre....
prep
stover at yale
the virgins
tom brown's school days
chocolate war
lawrenceville stories
greyfriars
i'd count stuff like catcher in the rye, map of tulsa, fan's notes
havent read it but old school by wolff looks ok
also, wodehouse
Brideshead Revisited (partially)
Maurice (partially)
Jill by Philip Larkin
First time I've seen Lodge's books mentioned on here. I was just about to suggest them and then I read your post. So, yeah, seconding The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge. Tragically underread these days.
Vineland
The Pale King uses a lot of flashback, some when the protagonist is in accounting school. He works for the IRS
A Separate Peace
>tom brown's school days
Add Stalky & Co. to that
Loner by Teddy Wayne
a little nu-agey at times but overall interesting