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Solar
Solar is a satirical campus novel by British author Ian McEwan, published in 2010, following a Nobel laureate physicist navigating climate change research and academia.
apps Top Solar Alternatives
The top alternative to Solar in 2026 is Stoner with a score of 9.4/10, followed by Lucky Jim (9.2) and Kokoro (9.1).
Stoner
John Williams’ *Stoner* chronicles the life of Edwin “Stoner” Grant, a Midwestern student at Midwestern State Teachers C...
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis’s *Lucky Jim* chronicles the chaotic life of James Baldwin, a young lecturer at Bretton Hall College in Yo...
Kokoro
Kokoro is a significant literary work by Natsume Soseki set in Japan’s Meiji Era. The novel centers on the evolving rela...
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus is Thomas Mann’s sprawling 1947 novel exploring themes of ambition and morality through the story of Adri...
Possession: A Romance
Possession explores a complex romantic mystery set within the academic world of 1990s Britain. The novel centers on lite...
Pictures from an Institution
1954 satirical novel by poet Randall Jarrell set at a fictional progressive American women's college, skewering academic...
The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara's 2013 debut novel about a scientist who discovers an isolated Micronesian tribe with extraordinary lon...
The Art of Fielding
2011 debut novel by Chad Harbach set at fictional Westish College, Wisconsin, in which a shortstop's sudden throwing err...
Leaven of Malice
Robertson Davies's 1954 novel, second in the Salterton trilogy, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and turns on a...
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh's 2018 novel narrated by a wealthy young woman in early-2000s New York who enlists a negligent psychiat...
Tempest-Tost
Robertson Davies's 1951 debut novel, first in the Salterton trilogy, is set in a small Ontario city and revolves around...
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri's 2013 Booker Prize–shortlisted novel following two close brothers in Calcutta whose lives diverge after o...
Conversations with Friends
2017 debut novel by Irish author Sally Rooney about two Dublin college students whose creative partnership and friendshi...
The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer's 2013 novel tracing six friends from their 1974 meeting at a summer arts camp through decades of ambition,...
A Doubter's Almanac
Ethan Canin's 2016 novel tracing the brilliant but self-destructive arc of a Fields Medal–winning mathematician and the...
The Marriage Plot
2011 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides set partly at Brown University in the early 1980s, following three literature graduates...
The Ask
Sam Lipsyte's 2010 satirical novel following a failed artist employed in a university development office who is forced t...
The Female Persuasion
Meg Wolitzer's 2018 novel about a college student at a small liberal-arts school who is transformed by a mentorship with...
The Virgins
Anne Bernays's 1982 novel set among Harvard and Radcliffe students in the mid-1950s, examining sexual awakening and soci...
The Uncoupling
Meg Wolitzer's 2011 novel set at a New Jersey high school where a production of Aristophanes' Lysistrata mysteriously ca...
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