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September means back to school -- the perfect time to pick up one of these exciting fiction finds for adults -- all books are set in boarding (or high) schools and all run the gamut of genres -- from mystery to thriller to literary fiction. Read and enjoy -- no homework required!

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  • A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.
    Book, 2025London ; New York : Hogarth, [2025] — FICTION OATES...J
  • The Academy is Elin Hilderbrand's fresh, buzzy take on boarding school life, and a thrilling new direction from one of America's most satisfying and popular storytellers.
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025 — FICTION HILDE...E
  • In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school.
    Book, 2023[New York] : Viking, [2023] — FICTION MAKKA...R
  • Ninth House

    An Alex Stern Novel

    Bardugo, Leigh,
    Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university’s secret societies.
    Book, 2019New York : Flatiron Books, 2019. — FICTION BARDU...L
  • The disappearance of a brilliant scholarship student and a young, charismatic teacher from an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Ireland is an unsolved mystery that has captivated the whole country. Year after year the media revisit it, and the…
    Book, 2021Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. — FICTION DONOH...R
  • Piecing together memories from her teen years at an elite English boarding school, Josephine gradually exposes a violent secret behind why the once-prestigious institution abruptly closed in disgrace.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — FICTION EATON...E
  • A sophisticated female-led thriller about a woman whose life starts to unravel as a result of her friendship with an unpredictable single mother, Greenwich Park explores the terrible consequences of guilt, the complexity of female friendships, and…
    Book, 2022New York : Gallery Books, 2022. — FICTION FAULK...K
  • The Secret Place

    a Dublin Murder Squad Novel

    French, Tana
    Investigating a photograph of a boy whose murder was never solved, aspiring Murder Squad member Stephen Moran partners with detective Antoinette Conway to search for answers in the cliques and rivalries at a Dublin boarding school.
    Book, 2014New York : Viking, 2014. — MYSTERY FRENC...T
  • The students and parents of a tight-knit community find their bonds nearly destroyed by competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens nearby, in a story told from both adult and child perspectives.
    Book, 2019New York : Riverhead Books, 2019. — FICTION HOLSI...B
  • Admissions

    a Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

    James, Kendra,
    In this debut, former Shondaland editor James intertwines her own coming-of-age story with a searing indictment of elite academia.
    Book, 2022New York : Grand Central Publishing, [2022] — 370.92 JAMES JAMES
  • When a member of a secret society known as The Maidens is murdered, a brilliant, but troubled, group therapist finds her obsession with proving the guilt of an untouchable Cambridge University professor spiraling out of control, threatening to…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Celadon Books, 2021. — FICTION MICHA...A
  • The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never…
    Book, 2022New York : Random House, [2022] — FICTION NOVIC...S
  • On a cool June morning, a woman walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten finds something sinister in the water. The next day, three women--Fatima, Thea, and Isabel--receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from the…
    Book, 2017New York : Gallery Books, 2017. — MYSTERY WARE...R
  • Offered a fantastic job in a rising star's political campaign on condition that she will work abroad and return to Washington after spending a dream year at Oxford, Ella clashes with, and then falls for, an outspoken literature professor with a…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : William Morrow, an imrpint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — FICTION WHELA...J
  • As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont University's privileged elite, she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different and the exotic allure of her…
    Book, 2004New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. — FICTION WOLFE...T