Books like 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.
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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 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.
This Side of Paradise
A Princeton undergraduate moves through love affairs and literary ambitions in the disillusioned aftermath of the Great War.
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.
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.
The Idiot
A Harvard freshman falls for a maths major she emails constantly, and her overanalysis of every interaction becomes a comedy of intellectual self-consciousness.
Norwegian Wood
In late-1960s Tokyo, a quiet student, Toru Watanabe, is torn between Naoko, his dead friend's fragile girlfriend, and Midori, who is lively and direct, as the city's student protests come and go.
The Line of Beauty
A young gay man in Thatcher-era London befriends a conservative MP's family and watches privilege, denial, and desire collide as the AIDS crisis approaches.
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.
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
In 1998 Raquel Toledo, a first-generation art history student at Yale from Brooklyn, comes across the work of Anita de Monte, a Cuban-born artist whose death in 1985 left her famous sculptor husband a widower and her own work forgotten.
Stoner
A Missouri farm boy becomes a literature professor at the University of Missouri and lives a quiet, thwarted life that only gains shape in its retelling.
The Hours
Three women in three eras live through a single day linked by Mrs Dalloway: Virginia Woolf writing it in 1923, Laura Brown reading it in 1949 Los Angeles, and Clarissa Vaughan, nicknamed Mrs Dalloway, giving a party in 1990s New York.