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Letting Go
Philip Roth's 1962 debut full-length novel set largely at the University of Chicago, charting the moral entanglements of graduate students and young faculty.
apps Top Letting Go Alternatives
The top alternative to Letting Go in 2026 is Pale Fire with a score of 9.6/10, followed by Stoner (9.4) and The Bell Jar (8.5).
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov’s *Pale Fire* is a 1962 novel centered around a disastrous academic expedition to a remote American uni...
Stoner
John Williams’ *Stoner* chronicles the life of Edwin “Stoner” Grant, a Midwestern student at Midwestern State Teachers C...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath's 1963 semi-autobiographical novel follows a young woman's mental breakdown, first published under the pseu...
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger's 1961 novel, comprising two linked stories first published in The New Yorker, depicts Franny Glass's spir...
Pictures from an Institution
1954 satirical novel by poet Randall Jarrell set at a fictional progressive American women's college, skewering academic...
Cat and Mouse
Günter Grass's 1961 novella, the second part of his Danzig Trilogy, set in wartime Danzig and centered on a boy whose un...
The Magus
John Fowles's 1966 novel, substantially revised in 1977, in which a young English teacher on a Greek island is drawn int...
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri's 2013 Booker Prize–shortlisted novel following two close brothers in Calcutta whose lives diverge after o...
The Groves of Academe
1952 novel by Mary McCarthy set at fictional progressive Jocelyn College, in which a professor falsely claims Communist...
The Dying Animal
Philip Roth's 2001 novella in which aging literature professor David Kepesh becomes obsessively entangled with a young C...
Indignation
Philip Roth's 2008 novel narrated by a Jewish student at an Ohio college in 1951 whose principled defiance of conformity...
The Professor of Desire
Philip Roth's 1977 novel tracing English professor David Kepesh's erotic and intellectual development from college throu...
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon's 1988 debut novel set in Pittsburgh over the summer following his protagonist's college graduation, whic...
The Group
Mary McCarthy's 1963 bestselling novel follows eight Vassar College graduates navigating careers, sexuality, and marriag...
Blue Angel
2000 novel by Francine Prose about a creative writing professor at a small New England college whose infatuation with a...
The Anatomy Lesson
Philip Roth's 1983 novel, third in the Zuckerman Bound trilogy, in which novelist Nathan Zuckerman is paralyzed by back...
The Sleep of Reason
C.P. Snow's 1968 Strangers and Brothers novel, loosely inspired by the Moors murders, examines the limits of liberal hum...
Exit Ghost
Philip Roth's 2007 novel, the final Nathan Zuckerman book, in which the aging writer returns to New York City after year...
Stepping Westward
1965 novel by Malcolm Bradbury in which a British novelist accepts a creative writing fellowship at a fictional American...
The Final Club
Geoffrey Wolff's 1990 novel set at Princeton University, exploring class anxiety and moral compromise within the univers...
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