At Åcon I was honoured to be asked to be on a panel about boarding school novels, alongside Guest of Honour Emily Tesh, Linnéa Anglemark, and moderator Sari Polvinen. We were asked for a list of the books mentioned. Sari has provided them, so here goes:

Non-Genre

• Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown’s school days
• tangentially George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman books
• Elinor Brent-Dyer: Chalet School Books
• Enid Blyton: Mallory Towers Books

Genre

• Naomi Novik: Scholomance series
• Jill Murphy: Worst Witch series
• Mary Stewart: The Little Broomstick
• Chaz Brenchley: Crater School series
• Katzuo Ishiguro: Never let me go
• Diana Wynne Jones: Witch Week
• Marvel Comics: the X-Men

University works

• Star Trek Academy – TV series
• Lorraine Wilson: The Salt Oracle

Not mentioned but on Sari’s list

• Ursula K Le Guin: Earthsea
• Seanan McGuire: the Wayward Children series
• Rainbow Rowell: Fangirl

And, of course, She Who Must Not Be Named, as an example of how to do the genre badly.

Sari and I may have issed some. I will check with Emily and Linnéa.