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
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
