Khazar Howard Jacobson: Coming from Behind Randall Jarrell: Pictures from an Institution Denis Johnson: The Name of the World Owen Johnson: Stover at Yale Pamela Hansford Johnson: Night and Silence Who Is Here? Chip Kidd: The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters Neil LaBute: The Shape of Things Philip Larkin: Jill Will Lavender: Obedience David Leavitt: The Body of Jonah Boyd Elinor Lipman: My Latest Grievance David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down, Changing Places, Nice Work, Thinks ..., and Deaf Sentence Alison Lurie: Imaginary Friends and The War Between the Tates Mary McCarthy: The Groves of Academe Bernard Malamud: A New Life Percy Marks: The Plastic Age William Hurrell Mallock: The New Republic David Mamet: Oleanna Javier Marías: All Souls Niq Mhlongo: Dog Eat Dog Tomihiko Morimi: The Tatami Galaxy Jeffrey Moore: Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Caste and Outcast Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin and Pale Fire David Nicholls; Starter for Ten Charles Gilman Norris: Salt, or the Education of Griffith Adams Joyce Carol Oates: Black Girl / White Girl John O'Hara: Elizabeth Appleton Tim Parks: Europa Adrian Jones Pearson: Cow Country Tom Perrotta: Joe College Francine Prose: Blue Angel Ellery Queen: The Campus Murders Roger Rosenblatt: Beet Philip Roth: The Human Stain and Indignation Willy Russell: Educating Rita Richard Russo: Straight Man Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night Dietrich Schwanitz: Der Campus Tom Sharpe: Wilt Jane Smiley: Moo Zadie Smith: On Beauty C P Snow: The Masters Tammar Stein: Light Years Neal Stephenson: The Big U J. I. M. Stewart: A Staircase in Surrey Ivo Stourton: The Night Climbers Ron Suskind: A Hope in the Unseen Donna Tartt: The Secret History Sergio Troncoso: The Nature of Truth Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing ... Jean Webster: Daddy-Long-Legs and When Patty Went to College Paul West: Oxford Days Michael Wilding: Academia Nuts John Williams: Stoner Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons Sylvia Hart Wright: Breaking Free: A Novel of the Sixties Laurel Zuckerman: Sorbonne Confidential Further reading Elaine Showalter: Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, 2005) (a study of the Anglo-American academic novel from the 1950s to the present). See also List of fictional British and Irish universities References External links Selected Academic Novels by William F. Brewer (Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) Books that take place within an academic