| Author | Title | GT Library Call number (if owned) | Synopsis |
| Amis, Kingsely. | Lucky Jim (1958) | PZ4 .A517 LU 1958 | Acid satire of postwar British academic life. |
| Bellow, Saul. | Ravelstein (2000) | PZ3.B41937 RAV 2000 | Novel about a professor at a well-known Midwestern college, obviously modeled on the late Allan Bloom |
| Brown, Dan. | The Da Vinci Code (2003) | Popular Reading area on 1st floor East | Religious symbologist Robert Langdon unravels world-wide and history-changing conspiracies. |
| Brown, Dan. | Angels and Demons (2001) | No | Prior to The Da Vinci Code advernture, Robert Langdon searches the secret tunnels and archives of the Vatican in a frantic hunt to avoid mass destruction. |
| Byatt, A. S. | Possession (1990) | PZ4 .B99 PO 1990 | Two contemporary scholars, each studying one of two Victorian poets, reconstruct their subjects' secret extramarital affair through poems, journal entries, letters and modern scholarly analysis of the period. Booker Prize winner. |
| Caldwell, Ian and Dustin Thomason. | The Rule of Four (2004) | No | A thrilling, campus murder mystery and coming-of-age story. |
| Carter, Stephen L. | The Emperor of Ocean Park | No | This suspenseful tale of ambition, revenge, and the power of familial obligations is set in the privileged environs of an Ivy League law school, Martha's Vineyard , and Washington , D.C. |
| Davies, Robertson. |
"The Cornish Trilogy" The Rebel Angels The Lyre of Orpheus What's Bred in the Bone |
PZ4 .D258 WH 1985 | This dazzling trilogy of novels lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy. |
| Eco, Umberto. | The Name of the Rose (1983) | PZ4 .E16 NA 1983 | A compelling murder mystery interwoven with religious commentary and philosophy. |
| Gaarder, Jostein. | Sophie's World (1995) | PZ4 .G123 SO 1995 | A young girl becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent; at the same time, she must unravel a mystery by using everything she's learning. |
| Galbraith, John Kenneth. | A Tenured Professor (1990) | PS3557 .A4113 T46 1990 | A respected Harvard professor creates an economic forecasting model identifying speculative folly; a morality tale and a comic delight. |
| Hynes, James. | Lecturer's Tale (2001). | No | After a freak accident on the day that he is fired from his academic post, our protagonist realizes that he can force his will onto others with a mere touch. Now, can he attain tenure? |
| King, Ross. | Ex Libris | No | A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe . |
| L'Heureux, John. | Handmaid of Desire (1996). | No | The absurdities of academe are a springboard for a wacky tale of lust, intellectual pretension, petty jealousy and divine intervention in an English department. |
| Letricchia, Frank. | Luchessi and the Whale (2001) | PS3562.E4937 L83 2001 | A college professor in the American heartland travels to visit friends in their last moments of life, inspired by their , and searches for secret meaning in Moby-Dick. |
| Lodge, David. | Changing Places | No | An amusing send-up o f the differences between American and British academics. |
| Lodge, David. | Small World: An Academic Romance | No | Comic tale of veteran academics riivaingl for an exclusive academic chair with greed, pettiness, and bufoonery. |
| Lodge, David. | Nice Work (1990) | PZ4 .L823 NIC 1990 | Romance and intrique between a universtiy lecturer and an industrial manager. |
| McCarthy, Mary. | The Groves of Academe (1951). | PZ3 .M1272 GR 1992 | A literature instructor plots vengeance for being let go, in the process revealing his true ethical nature. |
| McDermid, Val. | Killing the Shadows | No | An academic psychologist investigates the deaths of writers of serial murder fiction who become the victims of a copycat killer who models his crimes on their work |
| McGowan, Dale. | Calling Bernadette's Bluff (2002). | No | The struggles of a closet humanist teaching at a feminist, Catholic liberal-arts. |
| Naser, Sylvia. | A Beautiful Mind (1998). | QA29 .N25 N37 1998 | The true story of John Forbes Nash's life, winning a Nobel Prize, but only after he recovered from decades of mental illness. |
| Pearl, Matthew. | The Dante Club (2003) | PZ4.P337 DAN 2003 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell team up with 19th-century publisher J.T. Fields to catch a serial killer in post-Civil War Boston. |
| Pears, Iain. | An Instance of the Fingerpost | No | A seventeenth-century fellow of New College , Oxford , is found dead of arsenic, and a young woman of the evening is accused, sentenced, and hanged for his murder. |
| Prose, Grancine. | Blue Angel (2001). | No | Blue Angel does for creative writing programs what Upton Sinclair's The Jungle did for the meat-packing industry. |
| Pullman, Phillip. | The Golden Compass | No | An orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford Universitylives her life in a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied. For both children and adults. |
| Reed, Ishmael. | Japanese by Spring | No | An African-American professor at an overwhelmingly white university suddenly finds himself the academic dean of the school and, drunk with power, sets out to even old scores. |
| Roth, Philip. | The Human Stain | PZ4.R8454 HUM 2000 | An eminent classics professor is forced to resign from his New England college under charges of racism. |
| Russo, Richard. | Straight Man | PS3568.U8122 S77x 1998 | The reluctant chairman of an English department at a badly underfunded college slowly comes to terms with his dysfunctional life. |
| Sharpe, Tom. | Porterhouse Blue | No | Porterhouse Blue is the story of one college campus with more problems than students. |
| Smiley, Jane. | Moo . | PS3569.M39 M66 1995 | A satire of university life at a midwestern agricultural institution rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upsmanship. |
| Willis, Connie. | Doomsday Book (1993). | No | The story of a history student in 2048 who is transported to an English village in the 14th century, arriving on the eve of the onset of the Black Plague. |