swap_horiz Wilt Alternatives

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Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis’s *Lucky Jim* chronicles the chaotic life of James Baldwin, a young lecturer at Bretton Hall College in Yo...

Comedy 1950S Academic Satire UK University

9.2 Excellent

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Fifth Business

Fifth Business explores themes of memory and consequence through the recollections of Rearrangement Phillips, a retired...

1970S Literary Fiction Professorial Robertson Davies

8.8 Great

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Changing Places

1975 novel by David Lodge in which a British and an American professor swap universities for a semester, the first book...

Comedy 1970S Academic Satire UK Us University

8.4 Great

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The History Man

1975 novel by Malcolm Bradbury following radical sociologist Howard Kirk at fictional University of Watermouth, later ad...

1970S Literary Fiction Academic Satire UK University

8.3 Great

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Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh's 1928 debut novel satirizing English public school and university life through the comic misadventures of...

Satire Comedy 1920S Boarding School

8.3 Great

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Nice Work

1988 novel by David Lodge contrasting academic and industrial life in England through two Rummidge characters, shortlist...

1980S Literary Fiction Academic Satire UK University

8.2 Great

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Straight Man

1997 comic novel by Richard Russo about the reluctant acting chair of an English department at a financially struggling...

Comedy 1990S Academic Satire Departmental Politics

8.2 Great

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The Rebel Angels

Robertson Davies's 1981 novel opens the Cornish trilogy at a fictional University of Toronto college, blending Renaissan...

1980S Literary Fiction Academic Satire Toronto University

8.2 Great

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Small World

1984 campus novel by David Lodge satirizing the international academic conference circuit, the second Rummidge novel and...

Comedy 1980S Academic Satire David Lodge

8.1 Great

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Pictures from an Institution

1954 satirical novel by poet Randall Jarrell set at a fictional progressive American women's college, skewering academic...

Comedy 1950S Literary Fiction Academic Satire

8.1 Great

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The Lyre of Orpheus

Robertson Davies's 1988 novel concludes the Cornish trilogy as a college foundation funds the contentious completion of...

1980S Literary Fiction Academic Satire Toronto University

8.1 Great

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World of Wonders

Robertson Davies's 1975 novel concludes the Deptford trilogy through the life story of Magnus Eisengrim, a celebrated Ca...

Theatrical 1970S Literary Fiction Robertson Davies

8.1 Great

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The Manticore

Robertson Davies's 1972 Deptford trilogy novel, structured as a Jungian analysis, won the Governor General's Award for E...

Canadian 1970S Literary Fiction Robertson Davies

8.0 Great

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Porterhouse Blue

Tom Sharpe's 1974 satirical novel set at a fictional Cambridge college called Porterhouse lampoons English academic trad...

Comedy 1970S Cambridge Academic Satire

7.9 Good

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Moo

1995 satirical novel by Jane Smiley set at fictional Moo University, a Midwestern land-grant institution, skewering acad...

Comedy 1990S Academic Satire Us University

7.5 Good

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Crampton Hodnet

Barbara Pym's early novel written in the 1930s and published posthumously in 1985, satirizing the genteel social world o...

Comedy 1980S Oxford Academic Satire

7.4 Good

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The Ask

Sam Lipsyte's 2010 satirical novel following a failed artist employed in a university development office who is forced t...

Comedy 2010S Academic Satire Us University Development

7.3 Good

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Eating People Is Wrong

1959 debut novel by Malcolm Bradbury set at a provincial English university, following a liberal professor through awkwa...

Comedy 1950S Academic Satire UK University

7.2 Good

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The Rachel Papers

Martin Amis's 1973 debut novel, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, about a precocious London teenager's romantic obse...

Comedy Coming Of Age 1970S Martin Amis

7.1 Good

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An Academic Question

Barbara Pym's 1986 posthumously published satire of British provincial university life, centered on a faculty wife's une...

Comedy 1980S Academic Satire UK University

6.8 Fair