Popular Books Collection
This collection features books that are not a permanent part of our main collection, such as popular fiction. Titles rotate regularly, so be sure to check back often.
Sorted by call number
Updated March 8, 2013
Some remarks : essays and other writing / Neal Stephenson
Because I said so! : the truth behind the myths, tales, and warnings every generation passes down to its kids / Ken Jennings
Immortality : the quest to live forever and how it drives civilization / Stephen Cave
Bullied : what every parent, teacher, and kid needs to know about ending the cycle of fear / Carrie Goldman
Situations matter : understanding how context transforms your world / Sam Sommers
The (honest) truth about dishonesty : how we lie to everyone--- especially ourselves / Dan Ariely
The Templars and the shroud of Christ / Barbara Frale
Mrs. Robinson's disgrace : the private diary of a Victorian lady / Kate Summerscale
The rise of Rome : the making of the world's greatest empire / Anthony Everitt
The invention of the land of Israel : from holy land to homeland / Shlomo Sand ; translated by Geremy Forman
The forgetting river : a modern tale of survival, identity, and the Inquisition / Doreen Carvajal
Among the islands / Tim Flannery
The long road to Antietam : how the Civil War became a revolution / Richard Slotkin
The man who saved the union : Ulysses Grant in war and peace / H.W. Brands
Coolidge / Amity Shlaes
The last line of defense : the new fight for American liberty / Ken Cuccinelli
City of scoundrels : the twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago / Gary Krist
No lost causes / Alvaro Uribe Velez
Visit sunny Chernobyl : and other adventures in the world's most polluted places / Andrew Blackwell
Fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm : a new English version / by Philip Pullman
A warrior's heart : the true story of life before and beyond the fighter / Micky Ward with Joe Layden ; foreword by Mark Wahlberg
Freedom manifesto : why free markets are moral and big government isn't / Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames
Predator nation : corporate criminals, political corruption, and the hijacking of America / Charles Ferguson
A nation of deadbeats : an uncommon history of America's financial disasters / Scott Reynolds Nelson
Automate this : how algorithms came to rule our world / Christopher Steiner
Tap dancing to work : Warren Buffett on practically everything, 1966- 2012 : a Fortune magazine book / collected and expanded by Carol Loomis
Twentysomething : why do young adults seem stuck? / Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig
The great inversion and the future of the American city / Alan Ehrenhalt
This machine kills secrets : how WikiLeakers, cypherpunks, and hacktivists aim to free the world's information / Andy Greenberg
The age of austerity : how scarcity will remake American politics / Thomas Byrne Edsall
As Texas goes-- : how the Lone Star State hijacked the American agenda / Gail Collins
"Multiplication is for white people" : raising expectations for other people's children / Lisa Delpit
The violin : a social history of the world's most versatile instrument / David Schoenbaum
What are you looking at? : the surprising, shocking, and sometimes strange story of 150 years of modern art / Will Gompertz
The lost battles : Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the artistic duel that defined the Renaissance / Jonathan Jones
Paris versus New York : a tally of two cities / Vahram Muratyan
Leonardo and the Last supper / Ross King
I am a pole (and so can you!) / by Stephen Colbert ; with illustrations by Paul Hildebrand
Hostage : a novel / Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson
The Prague cemetery / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
The real Jane Austen : a life in small things / Paula Byrne
Doctor Who : the wheel of ice / Stephen Baxter
A week in winter / Maeve Binchy
Ragnarok : the end of the gods / A.S. Byatt
The Mysterium / P. C. Doherty
Dick Francis's bloodline / Felix Francis
Blue Monday / Nicci French
The kingmaker's daughter / Philippa Gregory
The Kashmir shawl / Rosie Thomas
The testament of Mary / Colm T{226}oib{226}in
Habits of the house / Fay Weldon
The bad Miss Bennet : a pride and prejudice novel / Jean Burnett
Mountain of gold; the continuing adventures of Gentleman Captain Matthew Quinton
Safe house : a mystery / Chris Ewan
Conqueror : a novel of Kublai Khan / Conn Iggulden
Centurion / Simon Scarrow
Orders from Berlin / Simon Tolkien
A dangerous inheritance : a novel of Tudor rivals and the secret of the Tower / Alison Weir
The golden scales : a Makana mystery / Parker Bilal
The people of forever are not afraid : a novel / Shani Boianjiu
Gun dealers' daughter : a novel / Gina Apostol
The prodigal son A Carmine Delmonico novel / Colleen McCullough
Unnatural habits / Kerry Greenwood
The story of Charlotte's web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic / Michael Sims
The lawgiver / Herman Wouk
Cat's claw / Susan Wittig Albert
Insane city / Dave Barry
The big cat nap / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrated by Michael Gellatly
Coral Glynn / Peter Cameron
Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker : a novel / Jennifer Chiaverini
Sonoma Rose : an Elm Creek quilts novel / Jennifer Chiaverini
Threat vector / Tom Clancy ; with Mark Greaney
The lost years / Mary Higgins Clark
The thief : an Isaac Bell adventure / Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
Notorious nineteen : A Stephanie Plum novel / Janet Evanovich
Cinnamon roll murder / Joanne Fluke
The Scottish prisoner : a novel / Diana Gabaldon
Calico Joe / John Grisham
The red garden / Alice Hoffman
Left for dead : a novel / J.A. Jance
Victims : an Alex Delaware novel / Jonathan Kellerman
Flight behavior : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver
Odd apocalypse : an Odd Thomas novel / Dean Koontz
The lover's dictionary / David Levithan
Eight girls taking pictures : a novel / Whitney Otto
10th anniversary / James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Alex Cross, run / James Patterson
Guilty wives : a novel / by James Patterson and David Ellis
I, Michael Bennett / James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
NYPD red / James Patterson and Marshall Karp
Private Berlin / James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
Private games / James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
Private London / James Patterson and Mark Pearson
Fall from grace : a novel / Richard North Patterson
Testimony : a novel / Anita Shreve
The time keeper / Mitch Albom
The gods of Gotham / Lyndsay Faye
Man in the empty suit / Sean Ferrell
Triburbia : a novel / Karl Taro Greenfeld
Collateral : a novel / Ellen Hopkins
Calling Me Home / Julie Kibler
These things happen / Richard Kramer
The Lincoln conspiracy : a novel / Timothy L. O'Brien
The song remains the same / Allison Winn Scotch
The lawyer's lawyer / James Sheehan
An echo through the snow / Andrea Thalasinos
By blood / Ellen Ullman
The dinner : a novel / Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Between the lines : a novel / Jodi Picoult & Samantha van Leer ; illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert & Scott M. Fischer
Before Galileo : the birth of modern science in medieval Europe / John Freely
The last lost world : ice ages, human origins, and the invention of the Pleistocene / Lydia V. Pyne and Stephen J. Pyne
Darwin's ghosts : the secret history of evolution / Rebecca Stott
Dreamland : adventures in the strange science of sleep / David K. Randall
God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine / Victoria Sweet
Fat chance : beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease / Robert H. Lustig, M.D
What's a dog for? : the surprising history, science, philosophy, and politics of man's best friend / John Homans
Tubes : a journey to the center of the Internet / Andrew Blum
Short nights of the Shadow Catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis / Timothy Egan
Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child / Bob Spitz
The emergency state : America's pursuit of absolute security at all costs / David C. Unger