Busse Library provides these titles for students and faculty seeking popular fiction or nonfiction titles about education. Books listed here are a sampling available in the library and elsewhere.

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Fiction Titles -- Nonfiction Titles -- References and Resources

Fiction Titles

• Lucky Jim -- Kingsley Amis
• Herzog -- Saul Bellow
• History Man -- Malcolm Bradbury
• The Professor -- Charlotte Bronte
• Possession -- A.S. Byatt
• Education of Little Tree -- Forest Carter
• The Professor's House -- Willa Cather
• Lords of Discipline -- Pat Conroy
• Death in a Tenured Position -- Amanda Cross
• What's Bred in the Bone -- Robertson Davies
• White Noise -- Don DeLillo
• The Rules of Attraction -- Bret Easton Ellis
• This Side of Paradise -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Lesson Before Dying -- Ernest Gaines
• A Tenured Professor -- John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Mind/Body Problem -- Rebecca Goldstein
• The Good Husband -- Gail Godwin
• The Odd Woman -- Gail Godwin
• A Solitary Woman -- Alice Kohler
• Paragon -- John Knowles
• A New Life -- Bernard Malamud
• Oleanna -- David Mamet
• Groves of Academe -- Mary McCarthy
• Tomcat in Love -- Tim O'Brien
• The Bell Jar -- Sylvia Plath
• Professor of Desire -- Philip Roth
• Harry Potter(series) -- J.K. Rowling
• Straight Man -- Richard Russo
• A Very Small Room -- May Sarton
• Gaudy Night -- Dorothy L. Sayers
• Moo -- Jane Smiley
• The Secret History -- Donna Tartt
• All the King's Men -- Robert Penn Warren
• Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh
• Decline and Fall -- Evelyn Waugh

Nonfiction Titles

• The Closing of the American Mind -- Allan Bloom
• Beyond the Ivory Tower -- Derek C. Bok
• Other People's Children -- Lisa D. Delpit
• Experience and Nature -- John Dewey
• Why Johnny Can't Read -- Rudolf Flesch
• The Unschooled Mind -- Howard E. Gardner
• The Art of Teaching -- Gilbert Highet
• The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy -- E.D. Hirsch
• How Children Fail -- John Caldwell Holt
• How Children Learn -- John Caldwell Holt
• Among Schoolchildren -- Tracy Kidder
• Illiterate America -- Jonathan Kozol
• A Generation at the Crossroads -- Paul Rogat Loeb
• Discovery of the Child -- Maria Montessori
• The Idea of a University -- John Henry Cardinal Newman

References and Resources

• Reader's Catalog at Barnes and Noble.com -- education category for possible titles
• Rogers, Earl M. "Fiction With an Iowa City Setting : An Annotated Checklist." Books at Iowa, 55 (1991).

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