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We’ve compiled a list of books and movies that are set at schools and colleges. Let us know which ones you’re excited for.

General School Setting

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane by Julia Nobel

School of Rock

Billy Madison

Akeelah and the Bee

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

High School Settings

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

Truly Devious Series by Maureen Johnson

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Looking for Alaska by John Green

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Heartstopper by Alice Osman

XOXO by Axie Oh

This May End Badly by Samantha Markum

In the Wild Light by  Jeff Zentner 

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

An  Education

Dead Poets Society

Mean Girls

Lady Bird

The Edge of Seventeen

Fast Times at Ridgemount High

Clueless

The Breakfast Club

To Sir, With Love

Bottoms

Rushmore

Colleges

A Secret History by Donna Tartt

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Babel by R.F. Kuang

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Mona Lisa Smiles

Good Will Hunting

The Social Network

Animal House

Legally Blond

22 Jump Street

Whiplash

Pitch Perfect

Monsters University

Old School

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