Your great big Wonkhe summer holiday reading list

It’s that time of year again when the broadsheets invite a series of worthy and notable individuals to advise us about all the books we should be reading on your summer holidays. That seems really a bit too much like hard work for the hard pressed Wonkhe editorial team so we decided to pick the ones we like instead.

Here then is our tip top list of the best higher ed novels and text books you will want to be packing in your suitcase before heading on your hols.

101 Reasons to Loathe PowerPoint
Hoods from the Hood – Graduation Paraphernalia and Street Culture
Cheats really do prosper – why essay mills are making a killing
The Bonfire of the Vanity Courses – Radical curriculum redesign made easy
The Telegraph Guide to Mickey Mouse Modules and Donald Duck Degrees
The Unexplained: Degree Class Inflation
The Woman in White and Other Graduation Faux Pas
The Pickwick REF Papers
The World’s Dumbest League Tables: Ranked
North and South: the UK’s Hampton Universities Compared
Coldwar Steve goes to Uni
99 Crazy Places to Graduate
Data Delights and Tableau Tableaux

And of course:

Everyone’s favourite holiday read – it’s the Spiked! Bumper Summer Fun Book 2019, once again with all your favourite pseudonymous scribblers adopting thoroughly contrarian positions on just about anything. With pull out picture spreads, photo stories, quizzes, puzzles and colouring.

And some of the best HE sellers from the past year which you also might like to consider for the beach

How to dig “digs”: Understanding contemporary trends in student accommodation
The Essay Mill on the Floss
An Office Collection Volume II- all the circulars and publications from the first year of the OfS
Yet More Places for Maces: University Regalia Across Continents
Understanding University Pensions (new, expanded, five volume set)
I Spy Universities
When Two Two Becomes Two One: Grade Inflation Made Easy
The Borrowers: University Librarians have their say
I’ve Got a Brand New Combine Harvester – agricultural economics in the Archers
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: The hottest new graduate entry jobs
The Sign of Four Star: Sherlock Holmes and the REF
To Kill the Mockingbirds: campus avian control strategies
UKRI or I cry, Bees or Baize? The definitive sector pronunciation guide
Bleak Houses: student accommodation through the ages
Registrars and their Registers
For Whom the Bell Tolls – universities and their clocktowers
Gold! Always Believe in Your TEF Score
Alone in Berlin: Managing Exchange Students in Crisis

And, of course, there is the biggest book released in recent years, True Crime on Campus, which you should be buying many copies of to take on holiday and to keep at home.