Books like Either/Or
The sequel to The Idiot: Selin returns to Harvard, takes a philosophy class, dates badly, and tries to figure out whether thinking is the same as living.
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This Side of Paradise
A Princeton undergraduate moves through love affairs and literary ambitions in the disillusioned aftermath of the Great War.
The Netanyahus
In 1959, an American Jewish professor at a remote college is assigned to host the visiting Israeli historian Benzion Netanyahu and his three unruly sons, one of them a future Prime Minister.
The Marriage Plot
At Brown in the early 1980s, Madeleine, an English major, is caught between Leonard, a brilliant, troubled biologist, and Mitchell, a religious-studies student who believes she is meant for him.
Wellness
Jack and Elizabeth met as young artists in 1990s Chicago, and twenty years later, married with a young son and buying a condo in the suburbs, they find their marriage and the theories they live by quietly cracking.
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Sixteen stories about lonely, awkward people reaching for one another in odd ways, among them a woman who teaches swimming lessons to elderly neighbours on her kitchen floor.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A freshman in a Pittsburgh high school writes unsigned letters to a stranger about the senior friends who save his year and the childhood memory that comes back at the end of it.
Wonder Boys
Over one chaotic weekend, a stalled middle-aged novelist and writing teacher tries to manage a troubled student, a dead dog, a pregnant mistress, and the 2,600-page novel he cannot finish.
Heart the Lover
Years later, a writer looks back at her final year of college, when she fell in with Sam and Yash, two brilliant best friends from her seventeenth-century literature class, and at the love triangle and the choices after graduation that changed all three lives.
The Human Stain
A classics professor in late-1990s New England takes a young mistress and watches his carefully constructed life collapse under the weight of a secret he's kept for fifty years.
On Beauty
Two academic families, the liberal mixed-race Belseys and the conservative Trinidadian-British Kippses, collide in a New England college town in Zadie Smith's update of Howards End.
Writers & Lovers
In the summer of 1997, Casey Peabody, thirty-one, grieving her mother, deep in debt and waiting tables in Massachusetts while she works on the novel she has been writing for six years, finds herself torn between two very different writers.
The Rules of Attraction
Three college students orbit each other in a haze of parties, sex, and emotional vacancy at a New England liberal arts school.