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John Irving’s *A Prayer for Owen Meany* explores faith, friendship, and destiny through the story of John Wheelwright and the enigmatic Owen Meany. Set primarily at a New Hampshire boarding school and college during the 1980s, the novel investigates Owen's unusual beliefs and his eventual, inexplica...
Shadow Kiss (2008) is the third Vampire Academy novel by Richelle Mead, in which guardian trainee Rose Hathaway begins seeing ghosts after a training exercise turns deadly.
John Knowles's 1959 American novel set at a New England boys' boarding school during World War II, exploring friendship, rivalry, and lost innocence.
Evelyn Waugh's 1928 debut novel satirizing English public school and university life through the comic misadventures of an expelled undergraduate.
Tana French's 2014 crime novel, fifth in the Dublin Murder Squad series, set at a Dublin girls' boarding school where a cold-case murder is suddenly reopened.
Looking for Alaska is the debut young adult novel by American author John Green, published in 2005 and winner of the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award.
Richard Yates's 1978 novel set at a fictional New England boarding school during World War II draws on his own wartime adolescence.
Thomas Hughes's 1857 novel set at Rugby School under headmaster Thomas Arnold, widely regarded as the founding work of the English school-story genre.
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.
