University is a time of rapid discovery — not to mention uncertainty.

To help incoming students cope with the onslaught of newness, librarian Gwen Glazer of the Readers Services department of the New York Public Library has pulled together some helpful titles.

They range from how-to books to thoughtful works of fiction.

We can’t guarantee they will produce straight As, but they should help new students make some sense of the world.

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