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Just for Fun!
Librarian with her companion animal
Your professor reading Harry Potter
Your professor reading Harry Potter
Dean reading Harry Potter
Dean and students at Chang
Graduate Assistant at Work
When in doubt, go to the library!
Your professor with her companion.
Stressbuster RU dog
Chang selfie station
High-tech cat from 2002
House pet?
Sources to Reading for Fun
We love to read! We also love to share our love of books and reading in various fun reading projects, such a Books We Read and Summer Tales, we have been running for Rutgers students.
Check out our guides related to reading for fun!
- PoetryThis poetry appreciation guide will provide information on how to locate and enjoy poems available for Rutgers users.
- Summer Reading at RutgersThe Summer Tales Book Club was running for three months during the 2020 Summer Session with asynchronous and live discussions, and fun events.
- Summer Tales 2021Enjoy reading from Summer Tales, a virtual community for students taking classes remotely in the Summer Session.
- Books We Read OnlineThe updated guide focusing on electronic resources, launched in March 2020, offers recreational reading material and streaming media from the Rutgers University Library Collection.
- Books We ReadThe original, pre-pandemic guide of print resources aimed to help you find reading material for fun in the collection hosted by Rutgers University Libraries, based on suggestions of students, faculty, and staff on the Cook Campus.
BEWARE!
Recreational reading, i.e., reading for fun and mental health also has side effects, such as improving marketable skills for classes and beyond, including searching for information, finding resources, writing papers, and citing scholarly resources.
We strongly believe in the potential of creating virtual communities. A collaboration between Rutgers New Brunswick Libraries and the Office of Academic Programs at the Rutgers School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, our umbrella project, Books We Read, aims to promote reading, libraries, and information literacy with the resources of Rutgers University Libraries.
Audiobooks
You prefer listening to books? Audiobooks are a great way to chill and immerse in a story in the summer. Our top 5 reasons to try audiobooks:
- You can have your entire library in your pocket when you go running or to the beach.
- You won't look like a total nerd with a backpack of books among music lovers with earphones.
- You will be able to pronounce the most difficult words correctly, beating Victor Krum trying to please Hermione.
- You have an excuse to ask for the latest ear pods for your birthday.
- You can read with your eyes closed. Just don't try that while driving.
- Cloud LibraryListen to audiobooks, browse eBooks with your library card from your public library.
- Internet ArchiveNearly 20,000 free audiobooks from various authors to listen.
- LibrivoxFree public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.
- LibbyUse Libby to borrow and read ebooks and audiobooks from your local public library for free.
- Open CultureHundreds of free titles streaming, mp3, iTunes, audible, and more.