The shift from home life to college life is scary, but it doesn’t have to be an impossible transition, even if it may feel like it never ends. While you are working tirelessly your first semester, try to hang on to your love of reading. “House of Leaves,” Mark Z. DanielewskiMy first recommendation is an interactive one to break you away from the mundanity of reality. The footnotes, paragraphs and structure are all unconventionally placed, with examples like upside down text as well as footnotes within footnotes. “The King In Yellow,” Robert W. Chambers“The King in Yellow” is not as hard of a read, but it is definitely a memorable one.