The library has been overhauling its Popular Reading Collection to include newer titles and more diverse voices. While the library is focused on academic and research needs, we also want to ensure that our community can access various types of literature to explore ideas and fulfill personal interests. Our Popular Reading and Graphic Novels Collections fit that bill.
These collections are not just for students. Any staff and faculty can check out these titles. The library previously had a contract to lease best-sellers from a service. However, the cost and selection of titles no longer served our needs. So we returned the majority of those books, keeping the titles that had frequent checkouts over the last two years.
Now, we are rebuilding the Popular Reading section with highly recommended and newsworthy titles, emphasizing books published within the last five years. Our most recent purchases have all been titles by authors from underrepresented communities, thanks to funding from the Paul Pierce Diversity Fund.
New titles now arrive regularly and you’ll notice our shelves begin to fill out more and more throughout the spring semester. Our displays next to DISCOVERe on the library’s first floor highlight recent and popular titles.
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Some recent arrivals you may be interested in:
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Age of Vice: A Novel by Deepti Kapoor
And Then She Fell: A Novel by Alicia Elliott
Artist by Yeong-shin Ma (in graphic novels)
The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom by Chrissy King
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith
The Compton Cowboys: New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland by Walter Thompson-Hernandez
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein
In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
Leslie Fcking Jones by Leslie Jones
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
My Friend Anne Frank by Hanna Pick Goslar
Read Dangerously by Azar Nafisi
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt
Vera Wang's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto
When Women Stood: The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World by Alexandra Allred
Yellowface by RF Kuang
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