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 in many.

Overview

The Oxford University Press is the University's own publishing house. It is world-renowned for its :Category:Oxford dictionaries|dictionaries as well as other :Category:Oxford University Press|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.

Timeline

;1820s
;1840s
;1850s
;1860s
;1870s
  • Through the Looking-Glass
  • Cripps the Carrier – author of Lorna Doone
;1880s
;1890s
  • A Young Oxford Maid
  • Jude the Obscure – Oxford is called "Christminster"
;1900s
;1910s
  • Zuleika Dobson
  • Sinister Street
;1920s
;1930s
  • A Storm in Oxford
  • Testament of Youth
  • Death on the Cherwell
  • Gaudy Night
  • Death at the President's Lodgings
  • The Hobbit – written at 20 Northmoor Road, North Oxford
  • An Oxford University Chest
  • Towers in the Mist
;1940s
;1950s
;1960s
;1970s
;1980s
;1990s
;2000s
  • The Remorseful Day – last book in the Inspector Morse series
  • Oxford Shadows
  • Another Kind of Cinderella
  • Any Human Heart
  • Bleak Midwinter
  • Lyra's Oxford
  • The Oxford Murders – also a 2008 film
  • Endymion Spring
  • Restless
  • A Death in Oxford
  • The September Society
;2010s
, where Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and most of The Lord of the Rings.