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Collections: Pleasure Reading

The Pleasure Reading Collection is located in the Choate library. It contains books that do not have a strict academic focus and instead are meant for our library patrons’ own enjoyment. These books are typically current award-winning books, books tied to other media products and book club books.

These books are organized by genre including:

Arts & Crafts
Biographies
Christian Fiction
Essays
Family Drama
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
History
Horror
Humor
LGBTQ+
Local History

Medicine
Mental Health
Music
Mystery
Parenthood
Photography
Poetry
Politics
Pop Culture
Realistic Fiction
Romance
Science Fiction

Self Help
Short Stories
Social Issues
True Crime
Westerns

More books are added to this collection throughout the year based on patron requests.
Let us know what you’d like, and we’ll do our best to add it to the collection.

Collections: Pleasure Reading

More books are added to this collection throughout the year based on patron requests. Let us know what you’d like, and we’ll do our best to add it to the collection.

January 2025 Library Hours

January 2 – January 17Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

January 20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)CLOSED

Regular Semester Hours Resume January 21

More books are added to this collection throughout the year based on patron requests.
Let us know what you’d like, and we’ll do our best to add it to the collection.

January 2 – January 17
Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

January 20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
CLOSED