New Books for the Holidays

Jessup Library is ringing in the holidays with brand new books. Start the end of your semester and another festive week of the holidays right: by checking out a new book for your winter break reading. Looking for suggestions? We've got them below:

Tara Westover chronicles her journey from the mountains of Idaho to the halls of Harvard in Educated, a memoir that explores what it means to leave, and eventually return, home. Self-taught and inspired by the example of an elder brother, Westover leaves the home of her survivalist parents for college, and in the process, undergoes a transformation that may make it impossible for her to ever go back.

Another novel that explores home and belonging is Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, the beautifully told saga of a Korean family that spans four generations and the length of the twentieth century. At its epic heart: a young woman's decision to maintain her independence in the face of poverty, war, and upheaval, a decision that will shape the lives of her children and grandchildren in unexpected ways.

Love them or hate them, there's nothing like family, especially when they're richer than Smaug. Dive into lives of the super rich in Kevin Kwan's trilogy, Crazy Rich AsiansChina Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems. Rachel Chu is a New York professor who accompanies her boyfriend to meet his family over the summer, only to learn he's as rich as royalty. Join the jet set in a romp ranging from Singapore and Shanghai to Manila and the Sulu Sea, full of sabotage and scandal, fast cars and penthouses, and a love story foiled at every turn by familial scheming.

Speaking of love: in The Amorous Heart: An Unconventional History of Love, Marilyn Yalom turns her lens on 2,500 years of the heart as a symbol of amorous love in this wide-ranging microhistory that considers everything from Shakespeare to emojis.

Finally, go behind-the-scenes of extraordinary innovations and remarkable careers with Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators who Changed the World by Melissa A. Schilling and The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers by Alex Banayan. Meanwhile, in You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education, George Anders brings hope to any liberal arts student worried they should have majored in a more conventionally lucrative field. Tackling topics that range from résumés from first jobs, Anders demonstrates how the liberal arts degree provides new graduates with a flexibility that will benefit them in starting and developing their careers.

Find all of these books and over two hundred more in the catalog. Happy holidays, and happier reading!