: For Students, Faculty, and Staff 
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
Salt and Memory
My end-of-summer reading included "Time Shelter" by Georgi Gospodinov, a future dystopia about memory and…
Anne GoodAugust 27, 2025
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
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