Books like Changing Places
Loved Changing Places by David Lodge? Here are 7 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Changing Places →7 books
- 1Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim
Kingsley AmisA satirical British campus novel about a junior lecturer whose academic and social life goes wrong in comic ways.
- 2Stoner
Stoner
John WilliamsA quiet, serious novel about a English professor and his university life, offering a more sombre view of the same profession.
- 3Straight Man
Straight Man
Richard RussoA comic novel about a university English department chair dealing with his department, family and personal crises.
- 4The Groves of Academe
The Groves of Academe
Mary McCarthyA satirical novel about academic politics and hiring at a small college, written with an acid eye for faculty pretensions.
- 5Moo
Moo
Jane SmileyA comic campus novel about a Midwestern university's farm-based research and the people who work and study there.
- 6A New Life
A New Life
Bernard MalamudA novel about an academic who takes a teaching post in the Pacific Northwest and finds that his new life brings its own problems.
- 7The Rotters' Club
The Rotters' Club
Jonathan CoeA comic British novel about school friends and family life in Birmingham, written with the same eye for social detail as Lodge.
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