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The Virgins
Anne Bernays's 1982 novel set among Harvard and Radcliffe students in the mid-1950s, examining sexual awakening and social constraint under the era's strict campus mores.
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The top alternative to The Virgins in 2026 is A Prayer for Owen Meany with a score of 8.7/10, followed by No Longer Human (8.7) and Villette (8.6).
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving’s *A Prayer for Owen Meany* explores faith, friendship, and destiny through the story of John Wheelwright an...
No Longer Human
No Longer Human is an influential 1948 novel by Osamu Dazai. It portrays the isolation and psychological struggles of a...
Villette
Charlotte Brontë's 1853 novel drawing on her years as a teacher in Brussels, following an Englishwoman who forges an ind...
Sanshiro
Natsume Soseki's 1908 novel following a naive provincial youth who arrives at Tokyo Imperial University and is gradually...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath's 1963 semi-autobiographical novel follows a young woman's mental breakdown, first published under the pseu...
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert's 1869 French novel following a young provincial student's romantic and political disillusionment acros...
Demian
Demian is a 1919 coming-of-age novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse that explores Jungian psychoanalytic themes an...
A Separate Peace
John Knowles's 1959 American novel set at a New England boys' boarding school during World War II, exploring friendship,...
The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil's 1906 Austrian debut novel set at a military boarding school, in which a boy observes and participates in...
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe's 1929 autobiographical debut novel traces Eugene Gant's youth in rural North Carolina through his first ye...
The Secret Place
Tana French's 2014 crime novel, fifth in the Dublin Murder Squad series, set at a Dublin girls' boarding school where a...
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 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...
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920 debut novel set at Princeton University depicts postwar American youth disillusionment and la...
The Rotters' Club
Jonathan Coe's 2001 novel set in 1970s Birmingham follows grammar-school boys against a backdrop of industrial unrest, t...
The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer's 2013 novel tracing six friends from their 1974 meeting at a summer arts camp through decades of ambition,...
Prep
2005 debut novel by Curtis Sittenfeld following a scholarship student who navigates class and belonging at a prestigious...
The Marriage Plot
2011 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides set partly at Brown University in the early 1980s, following three literature graduates...
A Good School
Richard Yates's 1978 novel set at a fictional New England boarding school during World War II draws on his own wartime a...
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