Whether it’s a thriller or a romance or even a fantasy book, some of these books are based on the academic setting i.e. based with a school setting or university setting where the main characters are either teachers or students. Here are some of the books with academia as a background setting.
Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
The popular series is based in Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry.
2. For Your Own Good – Samantha Downing
A teacher at an elite school seems to be stalking his own students. The story gets interesting when he tries to poison another teacher only ended up poisoning a parent.
3. The Love Hypothesis – Ali Hazelwood
The story is based between a Phd student and a professor where they go on fake dating.
4. Take a Hint Dani Brown – Talia Hibbert
A love story between a professor and a security guard at the university
5. The Broken Girls – Simone St James
Based in a girls’ disciplinary school in 1950’s where the school was haunted.
6. The Rosie Project – Graeme Simison
About a professor experimenting love
8. One of Us Is Lying – Karen McManus
Five students were put to detention together and one student dies while in detention–the remaining four students are suspects and each have a reson to kill that particular student
9. Paper Towns – John Greene
When one of his best friends give him clues to find her.
10. Nineteen minutes – Jodi Picoult
The story about school shooting, bullying and physical abuse
I just finished The Love Hypothesis. I thought a lot of aspects were really cute. But I didn’t like a feminist book starts with a sexual assault on a man. Non-consensual kissing is lumped in with rape in that infamous “1 in 3 women will be raped” study. So it just strikes me as really hypocritical that feminists will consider non-consensual kissing of a woman rape but non-consensual kissing of a man is cutesified into a rom-com.
The book was actually really self-aware and made a bunch of jokes about Title 9, but this definitely made it worse…
Yeah I agree. It was really unrealistic as well–would a student actually go and kiss the professor? I mean yeah and it was non consensual as you said. I was excited to read this book first because of the hype but I think it’s not much worth of hype
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I just finished The Love Hypothesis. I thought a lot of aspects were really cute. But I didn’t like a feminist book starts with a sexual assault on a man. Non-consensual kissing is lumped in with rape in that infamous “1 in 3 women will be raped” study. So it just strikes me as really hypocritical that feminists will consider non-consensual kissing of a woman rape but non-consensual kissing of a man is cutesified into a rom-com.
The book was actually really self-aware and made a bunch of jokes about Title 9, but this definitely made it worse…
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Yeah I agree. It was really unrealistic as well–would a student actually go and kiss the professor? I mean yeah and it was non consensual as you said. I was excited to read this book first because of the hype but I think it’s not much worth of hype
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