Academic Exercises is a collection of fantasy short stories and essays by British writer Tom Holt, writing as K. J. Parker.

It was the first of two Parker collections from Subterranean Press, and was first published in hardcover and ebook in July 2014.

[1] The book collects nine short works of fiction and three essays by the author.

The collection was reviewed by Paul Di Filippo (2014) in Locus Online, Jul.

13, 2014, Gary K. Wolfe in Locus #643, August 2014, Gardner Dozois in Locus #644, September 2014, and Katherine Farmar in Strange Horizons, Oct. 27, 2014.