…as the summer draws to a close and the school year (first year students Sunday) dawns, a concluding reading list on fiction about college life. A sampling of books (mostly American) wherein the college experience is chronicled in the imagination:
- Beet A Novel by Roger Rosenblatt
- The Cheese Monkeys : a Novel in Two Semesters by Chip Kidd
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
- Invisible by Paul Auster
- Joe College by Tom Perrotta
- The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
- Norwegian Wood translated by Haruki Murakami, by Jay Rubin
- Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
- The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
- I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
- I’ll take You There : a Novel by Joyce Carol Oates
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm; introduction by Francis Hackett
The last one, of course, bringing cries of “Oh rare Max!”