School and university in literature
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School in literature
- 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
- Anthony Buckeridge: Jennings Goes to School
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
- 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
- Stephen Dobyns: Boy in the Water
- Hannah Webster Foster: The Boarding School
- Andreas Franz: Tod eines Lehrers
- Elizabeth George: Well-Schooled in Murder
- Henry Green: Concluding
- Zoë Heller: Notes on a Scandal
- Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour
- John Hersey: The Child Buyer
- James Hilton: Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Murder at School
- 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
- Bel Kaufman: Up the Down Staircase
- Rudyard Kipling: Stalky & Co.
- N. H. Kleinbaum: Dead Poets Society (novelisation of the original screenplay)
- John Knowles: A Separate Peace
- Patrick McCabe: The Dead School
- Arthur Machen: The Secret Glory
- Heinrich Mann: Professor Unrat (filmed as The Blue Angel)
- Robert Musil: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (filmed as Der junge Törless)
- Andrew Neiderman: Teacher's Pet
- Freya North: Polly
- 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
- J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Muriel Spark: The Finishing School
- Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle
- William Sutcliffe: New Boy
- Josephine Tey: Miss Pym Disposes
- Friedrich Torberg: Der Schüler Gerber
- Nigel Williams: Class Enemy
- Tobias Wolff: Old School
- Richard Yates: A Good School
- Juli Zeh: Spieltrieb
University in literature
- Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
- John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy
- T. C. Boyle: The Inner Circle
- Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man
- Michael Chabon: Wonder Boys
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
- Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels
- Don DeLillo: White Noise
- Stephen Fry: Making History
- John Kenneth Galbraith: A Tenured Professor
- Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford
- Pamela Hansford Johnson: Night and Silence Who Is Here?
- David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down, Changing Places, Nice Work, and Thinks ...
- David Mamet: Oleanna
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Caste and Outcast
- 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
- Sergio Troncoso: The Nature of Truth
- Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing ...
- Paul West: Oxford Days
- Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons
- Sylvia Hart Wright: Breaking Free: A Novel of the Sixties [1] (http://www.sylviahartwright.com)
See also
- Teaching in popular culture (includes film and television)
- List of fictional schools
- List of fictional Oxford colleges
- List of fictional Cambridge colleges