Stoner by John Williams
This is a "campus novel", and the third by Williams that I've read, after Butcher's Crossing (western) and Augustus (historical/epistolary). This is a devastating novel, and a quiet one. Stoner is a kind of old-style stoic American. I loved what the novel has to say about who academia is for, and who it is not for. For all its quietude, though, it is also turbulent. Stoner gains an enemy at a certain point, and suffers defeats, some major ones.
Backrooms and Obsession
Scary times at the movies! Obsession was scarier, though more conventional. There were some neat things done with how the Nikki character moves and is in shadow when entranced. Backrooms was so clever in the set design, and how the world of the rooms seems generated ad hoc.