Academic novels

[Brian Collins]

And I would mention Michael Chabon's wonderful 'Wonder boys', concerning a
pot-head professor of creative writing, a dead dog, a tuba, writers,
agents, gangsters, Korean Jews and Marilyn Monroe memorabilia.

Then there's 'The world as I found it' by Bruce Duffy, about Wittgenstein;
which somehow brings to mind Iris Murdoch who was an academic, but as far
as I can recall never used an academic setting in any of her novels.

And if we are going to have Tom Brown, obviously it's time to mention JR
again, and a rather different type of school, Peter Hoeg's 'Borderliners'.