Best Campus Novels

Beschrijving
Recommend good novels with a college/university setting.
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5,431 leden
146 besprekingen
½ 4.3
8 Members
smcwl, thorold, aulsmith, cbl_tn, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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thorold: Classic mystery set in a women's college in Oxford in the 30s
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20,189 leden
553 besprekingen
4.1
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2,110 leden
33 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
smcwl, thorold, sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963
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thorold: Virtuoso send-up of the international conference circuit, with a strong hint of medievalism
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12,550 leden
266 besprekingen
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6 Members
rarm, smcwl, thorold, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar
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thorold: Only a short section is set in Oxford, but it's the bit we all remember
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4,295 leden
103 besprekingen
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12,916 leden
289 besprekingen
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5 Members
smcwl, thorold, merrystar, JuliaMaria, ahef1963,sturlington
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thorold: A book with characters who are academics, rather than a campus novel, perhaps
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1,809 leden
21 besprekingen
3.8
4 Members
smcwl, thorold, Dilara86, ahef1963
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thorold: Academia meets manufacturing industry
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1,305 leden
17 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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1,408 leden
56 besprekingen
3.8
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1,929 leden
36 besprekingen
½ 3.7
4 Members
smcwl, thorold, sturlington, Dilara86
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thorold: Birmingham (UK) and Berkeley during the student troubles of the sixties
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5,788 leden
154 besprekingen
½ 3.7
4 Members
smcwl, thorold, sturlington, ahef1963
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thorold: The classic redbrick campus novel of the fifties
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6,237 leden
187 besprekingen
3.9
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5,209 leden
169 besprekingen
½ 3.7
4 Members
Cecrow, cbl_tn, sturlington, ahef1963,thorold
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thorold : A brilliant novel, but surely school not campus.
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1,677 leden
37 besprekingen
½ 3.4
3 Members
rarm, smcwl, thorold
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4,157 leden
83 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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1,945 leden
74 besprekingen
4
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9,340 leden
224 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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922 leden
21 besprekingen
½ 3.5
3 Members
smcwl, thorold, Dilara86
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thorold: PhD student tries to finish his thesis without enlarging his family
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550 leden
11 besprekingen
4
2 Members
smcwl, jeffza
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3,482 leden
99 besprekingen
4
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430 leden
8 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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555 leden
7 besprekingen
½ 3.3
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1,022 leden
29 besprekingen
½ 3.6
2 Members
rarm, aulsmith
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3,566 leden
36 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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10,828 leden
274 besprekingen
3.8
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4,203 leden
80 besprekingen
3.9
2 Members
smcwl, susanbooks
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789 leden
23 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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22,745 leden
938 besprekingen
3.8
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1,617 leden
29 besprekingen
4
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699 leden
14 besprekingen
½ 3.3
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
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1,000 leden
31 besprekingen
½ 3.3
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
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414 leden
9 besprekingen
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
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494 leden
8 besprekingen
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
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1,746 leden
32 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
thorold, JuliaMaria
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thorold: Am dram in a provincial "new university" in Coronation year
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833 leden
9 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
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thorold: Brilliant send-up of the right-on revolutionaries of the early seventies (later turned into an excellent TV adaptation with Anthony Sher)
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74 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, JuliaMaria
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thorold: Philosophical trouble at the University of Münster, Germany, in the eighties
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2,537 leden
60 besprekingen
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
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1,731 leden
78 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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417 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
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thorold: Bradbury's first go at the campus novel: a bit too Lucky Jim, but very funny in parts
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1,257 leden
21 besprekingen
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
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thorold: Cambridge college damaged in freak condom explosion
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460 leden
7 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
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929 leden
37 besprekingen
½ 3.3
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WSB7
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WSB7: Wonderful postmodern tale that takes place on and around the Princeton(NJ) campus and involves some actual university people.
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10 leden
7 besprekingen
½ 3.3
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397 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria
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371 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.4
2 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria
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208 leden
2 besprekingen
3.9
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
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1,387 leden
20 besprekingen
½ 3.6
2 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria
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155 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.4
2 Members
smcwl, thorold
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thorold: Bradbury does his stint in America
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357 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.5
2 Members
smcwl, JuliaMaria
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331 leden
7 besprekingen
3.2
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
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12,732 leden
190 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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Cecrow
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2,976 leden
108 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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hipdeep
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21,137 leden
215 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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Cecrow
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5,184 leden
155 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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6,542 leden
96 besprekingen
3.8
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Cecrow
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4,070 leden
64 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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hipdeep
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159 leden
8 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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887 leden
18 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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1,397 leden
33 besprekingen
3.8
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merrystar
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7,899 leden
139 besprekingen
4.2
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51 leden
11 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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cbl_tn
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cbl_tn: The first book in a humorous cozy mystery series whose protagonist is a professor at a Hawaiian university.
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870 leden
25 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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thorold
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thorold: Oxford in the eighties, as seen by a visiting lecturer from Spain
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544 leden
60 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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cbl_tn
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cbl_tn: A historical mystery set in the early years at MIT.
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1,209 leden
51 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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cbl_tn
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cbl_tn: First in a series of crime novels featuring the University of Tennessee's Anthropological Research Facility (popularly known as the Body Farm).
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236 leden
16 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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46 leden
1 bespreking
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3,612 leden
60 besprekingen
3.9
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53 leden
2 besprekingen
3.8
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thorold
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thorold: King's College, Cambridge, thinly disguised, in the sixties
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6,572 leden
304 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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554 leden
18 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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thorold
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thorold: Anorexic student in London hall of residence
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15 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.3
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61 leden
3.2
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thorold
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thorold: Campus life in Aberystwyth in the sixties
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6,686 leden
351 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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thorold
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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.
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447 leden
11 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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thorold
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thorold: Young woman student in Ireland answers an ad for a flatshare
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1,301 leden
18 besprekingen
3.8
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520 leden
16 besprekingen
3.9
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thorold
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thorold: Tokyo University in 1907
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538 leden
16 besprekingen
3.8
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thorold
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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
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349 leden
14 besprekingen
½ 3.4
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768 leden
38 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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thorold
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431 leden
6 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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smcwl
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535 leden
22 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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5,311 leden
288 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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smcwl
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942 leden
31 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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1,030 leden
19 besprekingen
½ 4.4
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smcwl
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131 leden
1 bespreking
3.2
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smcwl
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53 leden
7 besprekingen
3.9
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smcwl
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8,073 leden
173 besprekingen
3.1
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smcwl
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1,108 leden
54 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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smcwl
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1,449 leden
34 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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smcwl
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702 leden
7 besprekingen
3.8
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smcwl
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322 leden
1 bespreking
3.8
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smcwl
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329 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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smcwl
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434 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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smcwl
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186 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.4
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smcwl
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61 leden
4 besprekingen
3.1
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smcwl
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4,146 leden
71 besprekingen
3.9
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aulsmith,thorold
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thorold : there's a Cambridge section, but it isn't really a campus novel
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647 leden
7 besprekingen
3.2
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thorold : very poor sequel to Porterhouse Blue
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157 leden
8 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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58,049 leden
2,264 besprekingen
½ 3.7