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Description: school stories in adult novels

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,567 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, nessreader, souloftherose

2

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,314 members

174 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, nessreader, souloftherose

3

by Antonia White

931 members

24 reviews

3.9

2 Members: nessreader, souloftherose

4

Miss Pym Disposes

by Josephine Tey

1,439 members

57 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, souloftherose

5

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

2,381 members

52 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, nessreader

6

2,987 members

250 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, souloftherose

7

The Getting of Wisdom

by Henry Handel Richardson

555 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: nessreader, souloftherose

8

by Lev Grossman

10,541 members

672 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aulsmith

9

Cat Among the Pigeons

by Agatha Christie

4,281 members

82 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: patchygirl

10

by E. M. Forster

4,294 members

71 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

11

by Rudyard Kipling

884 members

14 reviews

4

Member: nessreader

12

Tom Brown's Body

by Gladys Mitchell

173 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: patchygirl

13

Well-Schooled in Murder

by Elizabeth George

2,608 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

14

2,281 members

126 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

15

by Antonia Fraser

362 members

17 reviews

3

Member: patchygirl

16

1,957 members

72 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

17

by Angela Thirkell

308 members

9 reviews

4

Member: patchygirl

18

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

8,659 members

229 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

19

The Theban Mysteries

by Amanda Cross

404 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

20

The Instructions

688 members

25 reviews

4

Member: nessreader

21

St. Peter's Finger

by Gladys Mitchell

87 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aulsmith

22

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

21,281 members

752 reviews

4

Member: nessreader

23

The Harrad Experiment

by Robert H. Rimmer

217 members

8 reviews

3.1

Member: aulsmith

24

by R. J. Palacio

14,843 members

1,257 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: nessreader

25

Mr Tibbits's Catholic School

by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

55 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

26

by Gladys Mitchell

17 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: nessreader

27

361 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

28

by Natsume Sōseki

1,073 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

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Started: nessreader
March 2014
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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