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Here’s the best books we read in 2025

Staff at the University of Minnesota Libraries list off their favorite books of 2025.

Adria CarpenterDecember 22, 2025

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Salt and Memory

My end-of-summer reading included "Time Shelter" by Georgi Gospodinov, a future dystopia about memory and…

Anne GoodAugust 27, 2025

Michaela Day

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Piecing together the lives of formerly enslaved people

When Michaela Day went to elementary school in the late 1980s, she saw a few…

Adria CarpenterMarch 7, 2024

A collage of our favorite books from 2023

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Here’s the best books we read in 2023

What do librarians read? Ask one, and you'll probably get 10 different answers. To roundoff…

Adria CarpenterJanuary 10, 2024

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