Between those giant textbooks and dense journals, you’d think Hopkins students and profs wouldn’t have time for pleasure reading. Not so! Our McNaughton Collection of popular fiction and nonfiction is heavily used throughout the year! So just what do you guys read in your free time?
Top McNaughton Books of 2010
1. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
2. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
3. When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
4. The Private Patient by P.D. James
5. The Associate by John Grisham
But if your eyes cross at the mere thought of another book, unwind with one of our popular DVDs instead!
Top McNaughton DVDs of 2010
1. Charlie Wilson’s War
2. The Other Boleyn Girl
3. The Darjeeling Limited
4. Definitely, Maybe
5. Sweeny Todd
We recommend swinging by the shelves in the lobby of M-level often. With 8 new DVDs and 22 books per month, the selection is constantly changing.
Some of the new releases I’m looking forward to this month? Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx, Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland and While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut. And who needs Netflix when we’re expecting Inception, Despicable Me, and Easy A!? I’ll race you to the shelves!