The library’s most borrowed books are all textbooks. Of course it is important that our library acts as a resource, but what can it offer you after you have completed your reading from Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine? Certainly, we have more than textbooks here!

We compiled a list of some novels and autobiographies that the library holds. From Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl to Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, this list is full of great, thought-provoking reads:

• Junot Diaz, The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (PS3554.I259 Dia.)
• Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (PS3606.O38 Foe.)
• Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (DS135.N6 Fra.)
• Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (PS3558.E476 Hel. )
• Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (PS3561.E667 Kes. )
• Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (PG5039.21.U6 Kun.)
• Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (PS3562.E353 Lee. )
• Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (DT1949.M35 Man.)
• George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (PR6029.R8 Orw.)
• Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (QA76.2.P38 Pau.)
• J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (PS3537.A426 Sal.)
• Kathryn Stockett, The Help (PS3619.T636 Sto.)

We were in the foyer of the Main Library today asking students which book on the list they found most inspiring. To Kill a Mockingbird was the clear winner, while One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Catch-22 were tied for second place, closely followed by The Catcher in the Rye.

Do you agree? Tell us which of these books you find most inspiring! Haven’t read them? It only takes six minutes of quiet reading to relax you, so borrow one from the library and start today! You never know what might come from it.