School and university in literature

  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich: The Story of a Bad Boy 1
  • Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
  • Christine Anlauff: Good morning, Lehnitz
  • F. Anstey: Vice Versa
  • Louis Auchincloss: The Rector of Justin and The Headmaster's Dilemma
  • Alan Bennett: The History Boys
  • E.R. Braithwaite: To Sir, with Love
  • Sasthi Brata: My God Died Young
  • Elinor Brent-Dyer: the Chalet School series
  • Charlotte Brontë: The Professor and Villette
  • Leo Bruce: Death at St. Asprey's School
  • Anthony Buckeridge: the Jennings series
  • Erika Burkart: Die Vikarin
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
  • Hezekiah Butterworth: The Log School-House on the Columbia 2
  • Michael Campbell: Lord Dismiss Us
  • Anton Chekhov: "The Schoolmaster" 3
  • Agatha Christie: Cat Among the Pigeons
  • Jonathan Coe: The Rotters' Club
  • Colette: Claudine à l'école
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett: Pastors and Masters
  • Thomas H. Cook: The Chatham School Affair
  • Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War
  • Amanda Craig: A Private Place
  • Roald Dahl: "Galloping Foxley"
  • Abha Dawesar: Babyji
  • R. F. Delderfield: To Serve Them All My Days
  • Stephen Dobyns: Boy in the Water
  • Christophe Dufossé: School's Out (French: L'heure de la sortie)
  • Ernst Eckstein: Die Klosterschülerin and Gesammelte Schulhumoresken
  • Edward Eggleston: The Hoosier Schoolmaster
  • Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming Pool Library
  • Antonia Forest: Autumn Term, End of Term, The Cricket Term, and The Attic Term (four books set at Kingscote School for Girls)
  • Hannah Webster Foster: The Boarding School
  • Andreas Franz: Tod eines Lehrers
  • Elizabeth George: Well-Schooled in [...]
  • Witold Gombrowicz: Ferdydurke
  • Henry Green: Concluding
  • Daniel Handler: The Basic Eight
  • Joanne Harris: Gentlemen & Players
  • Jon Hassler: Staggerford
  • Zoë Heller: Notes on a Scandal
  • Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour
  • John Hersey: The Child Buyer
  • Hermann Hesse: Unterm Rad (Beneath the Wheel aka The Prodigy)
  • James Hilton: Goodbye, Mr. Chips and [...] at School
  • Ödön von Horváth: Jugend ohne Gott (Youth Without God aka Cold Times)
  • Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown's School Days
  • Evan Hunter: The Blackboard Jungle
  • Rachel Hunter: The Schoolmistress: A Moral Tale for Young Ladies
  • LouAnne Johnson: My Posse Don't Do Homework (filmed as Dangerous Minds)
  • Pamela Hansford Johnson: The Honours Board
  • Erich Kästner: Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (The Flying Classroom)
  • Bel Kaufman: Up the Down Staircase
  • Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman): Rage (aka Getting It On)
  • Rudyard Kipling: Stalky & Co.
  • N. H. Kleinbaum: Dead Poets Society (novelisation of the original screenplay)
  • John Knowles: A Separate Peace
  • Nancy Lieberman: Admissions
  • Patrick McCabe: The Dead School
  • Megan McCafferty: Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings
  • Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
  • Heather McGowan: Schooling
  • Arthur Machen: The Secret Glory
  • Heinrich Mann: Professor Unrat (filmed as The Blue Angel)
  • Benjamin Markovits: Fathers and Daughters
  • Gladys Mitchell: Death at the Opera
  • Zsigmond Móricz: Légy jó mindhalálig (Be Faithful Unto Death)
  • Robert Musil: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (filmed as Der junge Törless)
  • R. K. Narayan: The English Teacher
  • Andrew Neiderman: Teacher's Pet
  • Freya North: Polly
  • Robert B. Parker: School Days
  • Frances Gray Patton: Good Morning, Miss Dove
  • Tom Perrotta: The Abstinence Teacher
  • Gervase Phinn: The School Inspector Calls, The Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill and Dale, Head Over Heels in the Dales, and Up and Down in the Dales
  • Libby Purves: More Lives Than One
  • Terence Rattigan: The Browning Version
  • Ernest Raymond: Tell England
  • Miss Read: Village School and School at Thrush Green
  • Patrick Redmond: The Wishing Game
  • Peter Rosegger: Die Schriften des Waldschulmeisters (Manuscripts of a Forest School Master)
  • Bernice Rubens: I, Dreyfus
  • John Patrick Shanley: Doubt
  • Alan Sillitoe: "Mr Raynor the School-teacher"
  • Curtis Sittenfeld: Prep
  • Natsume Sōseki: Botchan
  • Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Finishing School
  • Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle
  • Jesse Stuart: "Split Cherry Tree" 4
  • William Sutcliffe: New Boy
  • Josephine Tey: Miss Pym Disposes
  • Friedrich Torberg: Der Schüler Gerber
  • Anthony Trollope: Doctor Wortle's School
  • Sarah Tucker: The Battle for Big School
  • Hermann Ungar: Die Klasse (The Class)
  • Simone van der Vlugt: De reünie (Class Reunion)
  • Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall
  • Charles Webb: Home School
  • Franz Werfel: Der Abituriententag (Class Reunion)
  • Antonia White: Frost in May
  • Nigel Williams: Class Enemy
  • Carol Windley: "Home Schooling"
  • Christa Winsloe: Child Manuela (filmed as Mädchen in Uniform)
  • P. G. Wodehouse: The Pothunters, A Prefect's Uncle and The Gold Bat
  • Alexander Wolf: Zur Hölle mit den Paukern
  • Tobias Wolff: Old School
  • Richard B. Wright: The Teacher's Daughter
  • Richard Yates: A Good School
  • Juli Zeh: Spieltrieb

University in literature

  • Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
  • John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy
  • Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
  • Saul Bellow: Ravelstein
  • T. C. Boyle: The Inner Circle
  • Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man
  • Michael Chabon: Wonder Boys
  • Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
  • J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace
  • Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels
  • Pamela Dean: Tam Lin
  • Don DeLillo: White Noise
  • Jenny Diski: Rainforest
  • Carl Djerassi: Cantor's Dilemma
  • D. J. Enright: Academic Year
  • Richard Fariña: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
  • Michael Frayn: The Trick of It
  • Stephen Fry: Making History
  • John Kenneth Galbraith: A Tenured Professor
  • Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford
  • Howard Jacobson: Coming from Behind
  • Randall Jarrell: Pictures from an Institution
  • Denis Johnson: The Name of the World
  • Pamela Hansford Johnson: Night and Silence Who Is Here?
  • David Leavitt: The Body of Jonah Boyd
  • Elinor Lipman: My Latest Grievance
  • David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down, Changing Places, Nice Work, and Thinks ...
  • Mary McCarthy: The Groves of Academe
  • Bernard Malamud: A New Life
  • William Hurrell Mallock: The New Republic 5
  • David Mamet: Oleanna
  • Javier Marías: All Souls
  • Niq Mhlongo: Dog Eat Dog
  • Jeffrey Moore: Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
  • Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Caste and Outcast
  • Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin and Pale Fire
  • Joyce Carol Oates: Black Girl / White Girl
  • Tim Parks: Europa
  • Ellery Queen: The Campus Murders
  • Philip Roth: The Human Stain
  • 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
  • Tammar Stein: Light Years
  • Neal Stephenson: The Big U
  • J. I. M. Stewart: A Staircase in Surrey
  • Donna Tartt: The Secret History
  • Sergio Troncoso: The Nature of Truth
  • Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
  • Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing ...
  • Paul West: Oxford Days
  • Michael Wilding: Academia Nuts
  • Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
  • Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons
  • Sylvia Hart Wright: Breaking Free: A Novel of the Sixties 6

See also

  • School story
  • Boarding schools in fiction
  • List of fictional schools
  • List of fictional Oxford colleges
  • List of fictional Cambridge colleges
  • Campus novel
  • Class reunion