List of books about Oxford


Below is a list of books about Oxford or written in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. The city of Oxford has generated and inspired much literature. Many authors have lived in Oxford, especially associated with the University. It has also been a setting used in many books.

Overview

The University Press is the university's own publishing house. It is world-renowned for its dictionaries as well as other books, largely academic in nature. It also publishes the Oxford World's Classics series. Other publishing companies based in the city include David Fickling Books, notable as the first bi-continental publisher of children's books.
Leading 20th-century authors at Oxford University include C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien
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Inspector Morse is a detective book series based in Oxford, by Colin Dexter. It has spawned a successful television series. Other book series associated with Oxford include A Staircase in Surrey, a five-novel series, written between 1974 and 1978 by J. I. M. Stewart, and Kate Ivory by Veronica Stallwood. His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust are trilogies of fantasy novels started by Philip Pullman in 1995 and 2017 respectively.

Timeline

;Before 1900Reginald Dalton Loss and Gain The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green Falconbeck Hall The Old Parish Church: with the Ghost of Merton Hall Tom Brown at Oxford Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass Cripps the Carrier – author of Lorna DooneRobert Elsmere Three Men in a Boat – a journey on the River Thames from Kingston to OxfordA Young Oxford Maid Jude the Obscure – Oxford is called "Christminster"
;1900-1949A Clerk of Oxford The Wind in the Willows – Grahame is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, beside his son, for whom the book was writtenZuleika Dobson Sinister Street The Charm of Oxford – Warden of Wadham College, OxfordDecline and Fall The Oxford Murders A Storm in Oxford Testament of Youth Death on the Cherwell Gaudy Night Death at the President's Lodging The Hobbit – written at 20 Northmoor Road, North OxfordAn Oxford University Chest Towers in the Mist Michaelmas Term at St Bride's The Case of the Gilded Fly The Silent Traveller in Oxford Brideshead Revisited Folly Bridge: A Romantic Tale The Notion Club Papers – written in Oxford and set thereJill The Moving Toyshop
;1950-89The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – first book in The Chronicles of Narnia seriesThe Lord of the Rings — mostly written at 20 Northmoor RoadLandscape with Dead Dons Summoned by Bells – verse autobiographyDame's Delight Accident, 1965The Game Last Boat to Folly Bridge The House in Norham Gardens – set in Norham Gardens, North OxfordA Staircase in Surrey – a five-novel seriesLast Bus to Woodstock – first book in the Inspector Morse seriesThe Alchemists Death of a Don The Book and the Brotherhood Oxford Blood Where the Rivers Meet
;1990sDirty Tricks The Children of Men Doomsday Book The Men and the Girls Afternoon Raag Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years Dancing to the Pipers Juggling His Dark Materials The Devil's Hunt An Instance of the Fingerpost To Say Nothing of the Dog The Greatest Sorrow
;2000sThe Remorseful Day – last book in the Inspector Morse seriesAnother Kind of Cinderella Any Human Heart Bleak Midwinter Lyra's Oxford The Oxford Murders – also a 2008 filmEndymion Spring Restless The September Society
;2010sThe Lessons A Discovery of Witches – first novel in the All Souls trilogyThe Professor of Poetry The Last Enchantments La Belle Sauvage The Secret Commonwealth
;2020sThe Sandpit The Oxford Brotherhood
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