College Bound

Alma Mater  by Rita Mae Brown
Victoria "Vic" Savedge is enjoying the perfect romance with football star Charly Harrison, until she meets and embarks on a passionate love affair with Chris, a beautiful transfer student, and is forced to make a difficult choice.

Sorority Sisters by Tajuana “TJ” Butler
Five young African-American college women – Cajen, Tiara, Chancey, Stephanie and Malena – struggle with issues of sexuality, independence and family relationships when they join a sorority.

Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
Former pop star Heather Wells has left behind hordes of screaming fans to settle into a new life, but when strange things start happening at her college, she finds herself once again in the spotlight, this time as a detective. Sequel: Size 14 is Not Fat Either.

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
Trying to decipher an ancient text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, two researchers obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secret.

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark
A student obsessed with her English professor is accused of his murder but cannot remember how her fingerprints could possibly have been found at the scene of the crime.

Acceptance by Susan Coll
Touring colleges during spring break of his junior year of high school, "AP" Harry and his mother step in to visit Yates, a liberal arts school in the Northeast, where he runs into two of his classmates from an elite public school in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in a hilarious chronicle of a year in the life of the college admissions scramble.

Chloe Does Yale by Natalie Krinsky
Yale student Chloe Carrington finds that her career as the author of a notorious column for the campus newspaper is wreaking havoc on her personal life, as she bares the details of her latest date – or lack thereof – for everyone to read about.

Obedience by Will Lavender
When the students in Winchester University’s Logic and Reasoning 204 arrive for their first day of class, they are greeted not with a syllabus or texts, but with a startling assignment from Professor Williams: Find a hypothetical missing girl named Polly. If after being given a series of clues and details the class has not found her before the end of the term in six weeks, she will be murdered.

A Question of Attraction by David Nicholls
Entering the university on a scholarship, a young middle-class Englishman harbors an ambition to appear on a television quiz show, an endeavor that, once attained, is challenged by his feelings for a posh teammate.

Secret Society: an Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund
Eli University junior Amy Haskel finds her life turned upside down when she is invited to join the Rose & Grave, the country's most powerful and notorious secret society, as one of the organization's first female members. Sequel is: Under the Rose: An Ivy League Novel.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Richard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that keeps them together, including murder and deceit among friends.

A Darker Shade of Crimson by Pamela Thomas-Graham
The new president of Harvard University becomes a prime suspect in the death of Rosezella Maynette Fisher, the opinionated, African-American Dean of Students at Harvard Law School, and it is up to economics professor and amateur sleuth Veronica Chase to solve the crime.

Heart on my Sleeve by Ellen Wittlinger
From the end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major changes in their families and friendships and explore their feelings for each other through e-mails, letters and a visit.

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
At elite Dupont (a fictional school based on Wolfe's research at places like Stanford and Michigan), the author unspools a standard college story with a 21st-century twist. Jocks, geeks, prudes and partiers are up to their usual exploits.

Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins (nonfiction: 378.1 ROBBI)
Robbins, who previously researched Yale's Skull and Bones Society for Secrets of the Tomb and also co-authored Quarterlife Crisis, went undercover for the 2002-2003 academic year to investigate the inner workings of "Greek" (National Panhellenic Conference) sororities.