Recommended Reading List

Seeking a light satirical novel about liberal arts academia, particularly one set at a women’s college; something like Neal Stephenson’s “The Big U,” but not quite so dense with words…

1. Commencement

2. Changing Places

3. Thinks

4. Prep

5. Stoner

6. Valencia

7. Lucky Jim

8. On Beauty

9. The Broom of the System

10. The Susan Lincoln Mills Memory Book

11. Calling Bernadette’s Bluff

12. Pictures from an Institution

13. Wonder Boys (reluctantly, I feel, though not sure why)

14. Carl Burns mystery series

15. Rebel Angels

16. Nick Hoffman mystery series

17. Swann

18. Moo

19. Hocus Pocus

20. Up the Down Stair Case

21. Simon Pure

22. Unrequired Reading http://www.wrl.org/books-and-reading/adults/academic-humor

23. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, dammit

 

More to be found at #22, & here: http://www.wrl.org/books-and-reading/adults/academic-humor

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