Just in time for those leisurely fall afternoons when you’re dying to relax with a good read (i.e. not required for class)! Here are a just a few highlights of new books in the Leisure Reading Collection:


Supreme Courtship, by Christopher Buckley
What would happen if the president of the United States nominated a tv judge to the Supreme Court? A comic novel that delves into the psyche of the Supreme Court, from the mind that brought you Thank You for Smoking and Little Green Men.

Resistance, by Agnes Humbert (translated by Barbara Mellor)
Subtitled “A Woman’s Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France”, this moving first-person account of the German occupation of France during the Second World War is a gripping read. Agnes Humbert was a respected art historian and a founder of the Musee de l’Homme resistance group. Her original journal was published in France in 1946, but never before translated into English.

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, by Michael Kimmel
Based on interviews with young men aged 16 to 26, high school to college, frat house to military academy, sports bar and beyond, Kimmel provides insight into what constitutes “Guyland”, a phase of social development that is seemingly immune to the influences of parents, girlfriends, kids and other hallmarks of adulthood.

Indignation, by Philip Roth
The newest novel from PEN and National Book Award winning author Roth, Indignation has been described as Roth’s most autobiographical novel yet. The book tells the tale of a young man from Newark, NJ experiencing college in the Midwest in the early 1950’s, struggling to understand the cultural and social constrictions of a very different world.

Being Elizabeth, by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Okay, I’ll admit it – I ordered this one based on the title alone. But it’s not about me, or even a librarian.
Being Elizabeth is the story of a young woman catapulted to a senior position in a global corporation after the death of the matriarch. In classic Bradford fashion, this novel tells the tale of a woman who is successful because she is determined, clever and committed, but not without sacrifice and heartbreak along the way. Doesn’t sound a bit like my life, but an entertaining read nonetheless.

This is just a sampling of titles found in the Leisure Collection, located on the 2nd floor