New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:
- Global Middle East in the 21st Century edited by Asef Bayat & Linda Herrera
- Secular Surge by David Campbell, Geoffrey Layman and John Green
- The Night Manager: A Novel by John le Carre
- Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis by Jiwei Ci
- The Western Disease: Contesting Autism in the Somali Diaspora by Claire Laurier Decoteau
- A Maggot: A Novel by John Fowles
- Global 1968: Cultural Resolutions in Europe and Latin America edited by James McAdams and Anthony P. Monta
- The Cave by Jose Saramago
- Pure Land in the Making by Allison J. Truitt
- Street Art Africa by Gale Waddacor