39+ of Your Favorite School Novels
This Riot Recommendation of best school novels is sponsored by School for Psychics by K. C. Archer.
School for Psychics is the first book in a new series starring a young woman with extraordinary abilities who must decide whether she will use her skills for good—or not.
Teddy Cannon isn’t your typical twenty-something woman. She’s resourceful, bright, scrappy. She’s also psychic. After a series of bad decisions and a run-in with the police, she finds herself at an elite facility where students are trained to use their skills to protect America, and the world.
But just as Teddy feels like she’s found where she belongs, a dangerous mission causes her to question everything…
Hello, recovering doctoral student here. I would not go back to being a student for all the money in the world. Wait, that’s really hyperbolic. Let me interrogate that feeling…Yep. Totally accurate. But! I do like to read about fictional school experiences. All the angst and triumphs with none of the homework or tuition. I asked for your favorite school novels, and you turned in some great picks!
The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton
To Serve Them All My Days by R. F. Delderfield
Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen
Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
The Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Just Patty by Jean Webster
The Secrets of Flight by Maggie Leffler
The Trebizon series by Anne Digby
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Daring Game by Kit Pearson
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
Lucie Babbidge’s House by Sylvia Cassedy
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Sweet Valley High series by Francine Pascal
The Chalet School series by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Making Tracks by Scott G. Gibson
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
Christy by Catherine Marshall
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
The Zucchini Warriors by Gordon Korman
