Best Student Life

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days portrays a clandestine effort within Communist Romania to obtain an abortion. The narrative centers on university students navigating a restrictive environment and facing significant obstacles. It explores themes of friendship and the challenges associated with accessing...

Community is an American sitcom centered around the students of Greendale Community College. The show’s notable use of meta-humor and its exploration of diverse perspectives within a college setting make it engaging television. It appeals to viewers interested in smart comedy and stories about uncon...

Greek is a television series following a diverse group of students at Cyprus-Rhodes University in Ohio. The show explores themes of friendship, romance, and navigating college life within the context of the university's fraternity and sorority system. It’s notable for its representation of LGBTQ+ re...

"Franny and Zooey" is a 1961 novel by American author J.D. Salinger, consisting of two linked novellas originally published separately in The New Yorker in 1955 and 1957. The stories center on Franny Glass, the youngest daughter of the Glass family—a recurring set of characters in Salinger's fiction...

Written by J.P. Donleavy, 'The Ginger Man' is a tragicomic novel first published in Paris by Olympia Press in 1955 after being rejected by other publishers for its explicit content. The story follows Sebastian Dangerfield, a boisterous and dissolute American student attending Trinity College Dublin...

The Art of Fielding is a 2011 literary fiction novel by Chad Harbach, set against the backdrop of baseball at the fictional Westish College in Wisconsin. The plot is triggered when a talented shortstop develops a sudden inability to throw the ball accurately, setting off a chain of interlocking pers...

Indignation is a 2008 novel by Philip Roth set largely in 1951, during the Korean War. Marcus Messner, a diligent Jewish student from Newark, transfers to conservative Winesburg College in Ohio to escape his anxious father, but clashes with institutional rules, compulsory chapel attendance, and the...

Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a 2006 debut novel by Marisha Pessl. Its narrator, Blue van Meer, is a highly literate teenager who has moved frequently with her professor father and spends her final year at a North Carolina private school, where a charismatic teacher draws her into an exclusi...

Conversations with Friends is a 2017 novel by Irish author Sally Rooney, her debut, set in Dublin and surrounding areas. The narrative is narrated by Frances, a university student who, along with her friend and former partner Bobbi, becomes entangled with an older married couple, Nick and Melissa. R...

Designed specifically for the academic crowd, this cafe is built for function and affordability. It features massive tables, excellent overhead lighting, and reliable, high-speed Wi-Fi necessary for group projects. While the coffee is competent and the snacks are budget-friendly, the primary value p...

"The Marriage Plot" is a 2011 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides that explores the romantic and intellectual lives of three college students. Set primarily at Brown University in the early 1980s, the story focuses on English major Madeleine Hanna and her complex relationships with her fellow graduates, Leon...

David Nicholls's 2003 comic novel about a working-class student navigating Bristol University in the 1980s while competing on the TV quiz University Challenge.

Martin Amis's 2010 novel set among students summering in an Italian villa in 1970, examining the sexual revolution's psychological costs for one generation.

Tom Perrotta's 2000 novel set at Yale in the mid-1980s, in which a scholarship student balances campus social pressures with running his father's lunch truck.

2004 novel by Tom Wolfe following a scholarship student from rural North Carolina navigating the social hierarchies of the elite fictional Dupont University.