The library has a popular collection of books for recreational reading. This collection is located on the 3rd floor in the periodicals area and contains many best sellers and current award winners. What are you in the mood for? Fantasy? Mystery? Romance? Realist literature? It's likely that we have it.

January with its slower schedule may be a good time to catch up books you've been wanting to read just for fun. Here's a selection of some of our newest books in this collection:

• The Sentinel by Lee Child. 26th book in this bestselling series, which follows the events of last year's Blue Moon. Reacher's wandering ways take him to Nashville, where he uncovers some dark and dangerous secrets.
• Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth. Set 10 years after five teenagers — including prickly protagonist Sloane and her boyfriend Matt — defeated the "Dark One," this book is a meditation on the ways in which predestined heroes may experience trauma later in life.
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. Follows protagonist Addie LaRue, a young woman who, in order to escape her marriage in early eighteenth-century France, makes a Faustian bargain with a god. Addie is given immortality, but in return everyone she ever meets is bound to forget her.
• Supermarket by Bobby Hall. A psychological thriller that centers on Flynn, an aspiring writer who has been dumped by his girlfriend. Depressed and desperate for change, he takes a job at a supermarket, hoping to find inspiration through the mundane daily routine.
• Thin Air: A Jessica Shaw Thriller by Lisa Gray. Private investigator Jessica Shaw is used to getting anonymous tips. But after receiving a photo of a three-year-old kidnapped from Los Angeles twenty-five years ago, she is stunned to recognize the little girl as herself. 
• Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep. Maxwell, an African-American man living in Alabama, was accused of killing his first wife, Mary Lou, but was exonerated. Where Harper Lee gave up on the story, Cep took up the challenge using Lee's own notes and research.