Leisure Reading and New Books

Are you an avid mystery reader? Do you enjoy reading current autobiographies or memoirs? Or are you interested in browsing the latest books purchased by Preus Library? If so, stop by and browse through our Leisure Reading and New Books area located on the main floor of Preus Library.

The Leisure Reading collection is a collection of current and recent bestsellers, both popular fiction and non-fiction. You can find mystery, suspense, and detective novels in this area, along with fully illustrated cartoon books, adventure novels, autobiographies, and memoirs. Some of the authors in this collection include Stephen King, John Grisham, Dean Koontz, Janet Evanovich, and J.K. Rowling.

The Leisure Reading collection includes most of the titles from the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s “What They’re Reading on College Campuses” lists. Books in this collection are rented, and either eventually returned or added to our regular collection.

For additional light-hearted reading, check out our magazines such as Runner’s World, Fortune, The New Yorker, Midwest Home, the Smithsonian, and Sports Illustrated in the Current Periodicals area on the main level; picture books and children’s fiction (yes, even Harry Potter!!) in the Curriculum Library on the lower level; biographies and fiction in the regular library stacks; and DVDs and videos on the main level.