Novels about Academia
- Kinsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1953)
- Stringfellow Barr, Purely Academic (1958)
- Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man: A Novel (1975)
- A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990)
- Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys (1995)
- Amanda Cross, Death in a Tenured Position (1981)
- Robertson Davies, High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories (1982)
- Don Delillo, White Noise (1985)
- Gail Godwin, The Odd Woman (1974)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe (1828)
- Norman N. Holland, Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery (1995)
- James Hynes, The Lecturer's Tale (2001)
- James Hynes, Publish or Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror (1997)
- Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy (1954)
- Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (2001)
- David Lodge, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975)
- David Lodge, Nice Work (1989)
- David Lodge, Small World: An Academic Romance (1984)
- David Lodge, Thinks (2001)
- Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe (1952)
- John Jay Osborn, Jr., The Paper Chase (1971)
- Robert Pease, The Associate Professor (1967)
- Francine Prose, Blue Angel (2000)
- Richard Russo, Straight Man (1997)
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night (1936)
- Jane Smiley, Moo (1995)
- C. P. Snow, The Masters (1951)
- Neal Stephenson, The Big U (1984)
- Debra Weinstein, Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z. (2004)
- Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)
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