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School in literature
- Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
- Christine Anlauff: Good morning, Lehnitz
- F. Anstey: Vice Versa
- Louis Auchincloss: The Rector of Justin
- Alan Bennett: The History Boys
- E.R. Braithwaite: To Sir, with Love
- Sasthi Brata: My God Died Young
- Charlotte Brontë: The Professor and Villette
- Leo Bruce: Death at St. Asprey's School
- Anthony Buckeridge: the Jennings series
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
- Michael Campbell: Lord Dismiss Us
- Anton Chekhov: "The Schoolmaster" [1]
- 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"
- Stephen Dobyns: Boy in the Water
- Christophe Dufossé: L'heure de la sortie (School's Out)
- Edward Eggleston: The Hoosier Schoolmaster
- 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 Murder
- Henry Green: Concluding
- Joanne Harris: Gentlemen and 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 Murder 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
- 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
- Arthur Machen: The Secret Glory
- Heinrich Mann: Professor Unrat (filmed as The Blue Angel)
- Benjamin Markovits: Fathers and Daughters
- Zsigmond Móricz: Légy jó mindhalálig (Be Faithful Unto Death)
- Robert Musil: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (filmed as Der junge Törless)
- Andrew Neiderman: Teacher's Pet
- Freya North: Polly
- Frances Gray Patton: Good Morning, Miss Dove
- 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
- Terence Rattigan: The Browning Version
- Ernest Raymond: Tell England
- Patrick Redmond: The Wishing Game
- Bernice Rubens: I, Dreyfus
- John Patrick Shanley: Doubt
- Curtis Sittenfeld: Prep
- Natsume Soseki: Botchan
- Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Finishing School
- Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle
- Jesse Stuart: "Split Cherry Tree" [2]
- William Sutcliffe: New Boy
- Josephine Tey: Miss Pym Disposes
- Friedrich Torberg: Der Schüler Gerber
- Anthony Trollope: Doctor Wortle's School
- Hermann Ungar: Die Klasse (The Class)
- Simone van der Vlugt: De reünie (Class Reunion)
- Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall
- Franz Werfel: Der Abituriententag (Class Reunion)
- Nigel Williams: Class Enemy
- 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 Yates: A Good School
- Juli Zeh: Spieltrieb
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University in literature
- Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
- John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy
- Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
- 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
- Don DeLillo: White Noise
- 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
- Pamela Hansford Johnson: Night and Silence Who Is Here?
- David Leavitt: The Body of Jonah Boyd
- David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down, Changing Places, Nice Work, and Thinks ...
- Mary McCarthy: The Groves of Academe
- David Mamet: Oleanna
- Javier Marías: All Souls
- Jeffrey Moore: Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Caste and Outcast
- Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin and Pale Fire
- Tim Parks: Europa
- Ellery Queen: The Campus Murders
- Philip Roth: The Human Stain
- Willy Russell: Educating Rita
- Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night
- Dietrich Schwanitz: Der Campus
- Tom Sharpe: Wilt
- Jane Smiley: Moo
- J. I. M. Stewart: A Staircase in Surrey
- 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 [3]
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See also
- Teaching in popular culture (includes film and television)
- School story
- Boarding schools in fiction
- List of fictional schools
- List of fictional Oxford colleges
- List of fictional Cambridge colleges
- Campus novel
- Class reunion
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External links
- Selected Academic Novels by William F. Brewer (Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Books that take place within an academic environment by Áine M. Humble (Department of Family Studies and Gerontology, Mount Saint Vincent University)