Library Top Twenties for 2024

Interested in what SLU students, faculty, and staff read and watched in 2024? Here are the top 20 most used books, eBooks, and streaming videos from the libraries last year, with links to records in the library catalog:

Top 20 Print Books

The Bee Sting / Paul Murray
Racial Trauma: Clinical Strategies and Techniques For Healing Invisible Wounds / Kenneth V. Hardy
The Bright Sword: a novel of King Arthur / Lev Grossman
Jane Austen's Wardrobe / Hilary Davidson
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet / Jeff Goodell
Norwegian Wood / Haruki Murakami
Reading Genesis / Marilynne Robinson
All Fours / Miranda July
The Kamogawa Food Detectives / Hisashi Kashiwai
Burma Sahib: a novel / Paul Theroux
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store / James McBride
Grand Delusion: the Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East / Steven Simon
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East / Nicholas Morton
November 1942: an Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II / Peter Englund
Owner of a Lonely Heart: a memoir / Beth Nguyen
The Wager: a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder / David Grann
Moscow, December 25, 1991: the Last Day of the Soviet Union / Conor O'Clery
Development and Social Change: a Global Perspective / Philip McMichael and Heloise Weber
Fourth Wing / Rebecca Yarros
Less: a novel / Andrew Sean Greer
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History / Ned Blackhawk
Legends of the Earth, Sea, and Sky: an Encyclopedia of Nature Myths / Tamra Andrews

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Top 20 eBooks

Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R / Laura Chihara, Tim Hesterberg
Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches / edited by Lindsay Guarino and Wendy Oliver
Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader / edited by Penny A. Weiss, with Megan Brueske
The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550-1750 / edited by William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers
The Intimate Act of Choreography / Lynne Anne Blom and L. Tarin Chaplin
The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government / Markus Dirk Dubber
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality / Anne Fausto-Sterling
Mercury, Mining, and Empire: the Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes / Nicholas A. Robins
Taj Mahal / Giles Tillotson
The Secret of the Totem: Religion and Society from McLennan to Freud / Robert Alun Jones
A Choreographer's Handbook / Jonathan Burrows
State-directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery / Atul Ko
What's Wrong With Fat? / Abigail C. Saguy
The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints / Jacobus De Voragine; translated by William Granger Ryan
My Music: Explorations of Music in Daily Life / edited by Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil, and the Music in Daily Life Project
Matters of Justice: Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian Reform in Revolutionary Mexico / Helga Baitenmann
The Best War Ever: America and World War II / Michael C. C. Adams
Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England / Richard W. Judd
The Amphibians and Reptiles of New York State: Identification, Natural History, and Conservation / James P. Gibbs and others
Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging / edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber

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Top 20 Print Books

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Top 20 Streaming Videos