/lit/ - Literature

All Souls, by Javier Marias is excellent. In fact, anything by Javier Marias is excellent, as a rule.

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>>5411323
lol

Changing Places by David Lodge is a fun read about an English and an American professor swap campuses

Pnin

>>5411290

The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

I read it a while ago so don't remember details but do remember that it was really good.

Stoner is a great read

Ravelstein

>>5411290

Brideshead Revisited is of course fantastic. Starter for 10 is slightly lower brow (set in Bristol in 1985) but quite funny for what it is

Zuleika Dobson is a fantastically funny read, although I'm not sure it's exactly what you're after

>>5411339

>>5411323
I should have clarified that Stoner is what sparked me to post this in the first place because I just bought it and was looking for more.

>>5411290
I'm reading White Noise by DeLillo right now. It's great, but it's from the perspective of a professor instead of a student, if that matters. Really funny though.

>>5411290

Harry Potter, if you count Hogwarts as a University

I like the 4th book the best, it's the deepest and has a lot of smart themes running through it. The 6th is very good as well.

>>5411290
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. You might have read that it contains one of the best descriptions of a hangover.

Rules of Attraction

Somewhat relevant.

Pictures from an Institution

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>>5412767
Seconding these

Pale Fire

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.

It takes during and around the Yale games but not at them, and not at any university.

However, I think what you are looking for is in there.

>>5411335

x 2

>>5411290
oh snap! you have to read that donna tart book ... the name is escaping me .... fuck, to the google machine ....

>>5413601
The Secret History by Donna Tartt. You won't regret it.

This Side of Paradise

>>5411290
infinite jest

End as a Man by Calder Willingham
About The Citadel a South Carolina military school. Pretty funny lampooning of the military and the south.

About a quarter of it.

>>5411392
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis isn't too bad. I didn't think it was quite as funny as a lot of critics did, but it was enjoyable nonetheless

>>5411536
Came here to recommend this as well.

>Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth has been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he’d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by a secret police. He felt bad.

Richard Farina's "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me"

Pynchon dedicated "Gravity's Rainbow" to this man, if that means anything to you.

>>5411536
I second this. Very good novel.

>>5412934
this is the greatest novel of all time please end the thread

A lot of Murakami novels partially take place in one. Norwegian Wood and Colorless Tsukuru come to mind.

>>5412934
That's not really a "normal" college book. Very, very good though.

The Bell Jar take place, for about half the novel, in a university.

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe and The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy.

>>5414269
ETA's a boarding school (HS). Hal's looking to get into college in YoG.

>>5411335
Came to post this

>>5414596
Yeah, Norwegian Wood is definitely a universitycore book

>>5414790

>tfw I didn't finish Kafka On The Shore

>>5414231
this

>>5416772
side

>>5417120
of

>>5417121
paradise

More universitycore please.

Thomas Gray - Philosopher Cat
Sort of YA though. But with a strong math background.

This fucking this

>>5412720
this

On a related note, would there be a "The Graduate" - like universitycore book out there? In tone, not in "bang my crush's mom" relatedness.