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.

Title page from The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green by Cuthbert Bede.
Title page from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Overview

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The Oxford University Press (and Clarendon 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,[1] notable as the first bi-continental publisher of children's books.[2]

Leading 20th-century authors at Oxford University include C. S. Lewis (works including The Chronicles of Narnia series of seven books) and J. R. R. Tolkien (works including Middle-earth books).

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

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Before 1900
1900-1949
1950-89
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
 
20 Northmoor Road, where Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and most of The Lord of the Rings.

See also

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References

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Further reading

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  • Hood, Nancy, Literary Oxford. Sutton Publishing Limited, 1999. ISBN 0-7509-2115-3.
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