Source: Book Lust page 3
In celebration of me leaving my job behind I've decided to read humerous fiction about academia. It didn't occur to me that there would be enough material out there to support this list but on reflection it makes considerably more sense. After all, academics tend to be highly literate people and highly literate people are more likely to write books and people tend to write about what they know....in this case academia. (run on sentance I know) In any case, I haven't heard of any of these authors so it'll be an adventure.
1. Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
2. The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy
3. Moo by Jane Smiley
4. Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed
5. The Handmaid of Desire by John L'Heureux
6. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
David Lodge
7. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses
8. Small World: An Academic Romance
9. Nice Work
Malcolm Bradbury
10. Eating People Is Wrong
11. Stepping Westward
12. The History Man
13. Rates of Exchange
14. To the Hermitage
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