This series contains books from Smith's library and includes fiction and nonfiction titles. Agatha Christie and Sax Rohmer books constitute the bulk of the fiction titles, with other authors including Washington Irving, William Shakespeare, Sinclair Lewis, Jorge Amado, Charles Dickens, and Henry Green. Nonfiction topics include the Alhambra, Hawaii, Arabic art, Hollywood, typography, border design, exercise, and nutrition. Materials date from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s, with the bulk dating from 1968 to 1978.