Sep 29, 2020
Today Chelsey and Sara are toppling your TBRs with campus novels. We know this back to school season is weird for students, teachers, parents, and the rest of us as we navigate new seasons during a pandemic. So let’s go back to school safely with books that take place at school, that revolve around learning or academia, and that give us the new school supplies, crisp fall leaves, sharpened pencils feeling.
We have so many books on this list...all sorts of tones and types! Don’t worry about writing everything down; we have links to all of the books mentioned in our show notes. It’s very possible we won’t get through all of the books we want to on this episode, but we’ll have an even more complete list of campus novels on our new blog: novelpairings.com.
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Classics
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Possession by AS Byatt
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Mysteries
If We Were Villains by M.L Rio
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Likeness by Tana French
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Young Adult
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks by E. Lockhart (@allisonreadsdc)
We Are Okay by Nina Lacour
Bloomability by Sharon Creech (@anniebjones05, The Bookshelf)
Dear Martin & Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Magic Campuses
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Campus Romances
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Normal People by Sally Rooney
My Education by Susan Choi
The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Miscellaneous
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro