Fifteen great campus novels published in the last 10 years

Emily Temple holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA in fiction from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns fellow and the recipient of a Henfield Prize.

Temple's new novel, her first, is The Lightness.

At Lit Hub she tagged fifteen great campus novels published in the last ten years. One title on the list:

Pamela Erens, The Virgins (2013)

Erens pulls off more than a few tricks in her second novel, the most impressive of which is her very unlikeable, very unreliable narrator, a villain jealously imagining the love affair (and sexual practices) of a couple at their shared boarding school—almost as if the narrator of Salter’s A Sport and a Pastime was sinister, and involved. The novel itself is a brutal delight, and surely a contemporary classic of the genre.

Read about the other entries on the list.

The Virgins is among Tiffany Gibert's ten erotic books hotter and better than Fifty Shades of Grey and Radhika Sanghani's ten top books about losing one's virginity.

--Marshal Zeringue