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Adulting 101

You're in college! Yay! This might be your first time living away from home, you might be about to graduate and move into the outside world, or maybe you are looking for some new skills to be better organized in life. This is the list for you. From quick and easy recipes to finance to adopting pets, these books have it all. We have a variety of physical books that can be checked out and online books that you can access whenever and wherever. It doesn't have to be the start of a new year to change your life and make new goals for yourself; you can start right here, right now, today.  

This reading list provides you with some collections of books that are currently available through Kinlaw Library. This list is not exhaustive of our collection, but is intended to provide some recommended titles. Consider this your encouragement to experience something new this year! If you know of additional resources we should add to our collection, please click "Suggest a Book" on the right-hand menu and let us know.

Book Gallery: books that are part of our Adulting 101 Collection

Atomic Habits
Healthy, Quick and Easy College Cookbook
101 Secrets for Your Twenties
Houseplant Handbook
Adulting Made Easy
Do Your Laundry or You'll Die Alone
Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?

Print Books

We have a copy of each title listed below in our physical collection in Kinlaw Library. This is only a small sampling of our collection, so check out our catalog for additional reading. Come in to the library to check out a title below from our Spotlight Display or you can Request a Hold to pick up your books on the go.

  • Selected Letters, Wesley   
  • The Diary of Beatrice Webb, by Beatrice Webb
  • Prison Diaries, by Kuzentsov 
  • The Notebooks, by Da Vinci 
  • Diary of an Arctic Year, by Krasemann 
  • The Life and Letters, by Darwin
  • Drawings from his Private Albums, by Goya  
  • Another Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, by Byrd  
  • Letters, Wesley 
  • The Letters and Diaries, by Schlemmer,
  • Diary of an Art Dealer, by Rene Gimpel  
  • New Beethoven Letters, by Beethoven 
  • Letters, by Chopin 
  • The Diaries of Tckhaikovsy, by Tchaikovsky   
  • Hitchock’s Notebooks, by Hitchcock 
  • Letters, by Emily Dickinson
  • Mark Twain’s Letters, by Mark Twain  
  • New Shelly Letters, by Percy Bysshy Shelly
  • Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, by Dorothy Wordsworth  
  • Commonplace Book, by Forster  
  • All My Road Before Me, by Lewis  
  • Early Letters, by Sir Thomas More 
  • Letters, by C. S. Lewis 
  • Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path, by Woolf 
  • Letters, by Petrarch 
  • Select Letters, by Cicero
  • The Diary of a Russian Censor, by Nikitenko   
  • Tolstoy’s Letters, by Tolstoy 
  • Letters, by Turgenev  
  • Selected Letters, by Anton Chekhov  
  • The Gold Rush Diary, by Perkins 
  • Diary of My Travels in America, by King Louis Philippe
  • Commitment and Sacrifice, by Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee 
  • The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank 
  • A Diary of Darkness, by Kiyosawa
  • Early Letters, by Queen Victoria
  • Dark and Bloody Ground, by Perez Lopez   
  • No Words to Say Goodbye, by Kopelnitsky  
  • Bluegrass Confederate, by Guerrant  
  • The Great Depression, by Roth 
  • White House Diary, by Carter  
  • A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky, by Peter  

E-Books

Our e-books are not available for download, but can be viewed with any device that can open a PDF reader. You can print or download a set of pages from each book to read offline if you desire. You can view our e-book collection to search for additional titles.