Library Top Twenties for 2025

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Interested in what SLU students, faculty, and staff read and watched in 2025?  Here are the top 20 most used books, eBooks, streaming videos, and journals from the libraries last year:

Top 20 Print Books

  1. Intermezzo: A Novel / Sally Rooney
  2. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI / Yuval Noah Harari
  3. Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life / Agnes Callard
  4. Beloved: A Novel / Toni Morrison
  5. The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini
  6. How to Lose a War: The Story of America's Intervention in Afghanistan / Amin Saikal
  7. The God of the Woods / Liz Moore
  8. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective / Philip McMichael and Heloise Weber
  9. Eating and Being: A History of Ideas About Our Food and Ourselves / Steven Shapin
  10. William Blake vs. The World / John Higgs
  11. Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem / Arthur Miller
  12. The Granddaughter: A Novel / Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Charlotte Collins
  13. The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 / Luke A. Ni
  14. Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human / Guy Leschziner
  15. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue / V.E. Schwab
  16. Animal Farm / George Orwell
  17. The Craft of Research / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, William T. FitzGerald
  18. The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness / Paul Schneider
  19. The Conquest of Bread / Peter Kropotkin
  20. A Grain of Wheat / James Ngugi

Links to Top 20 Print Books

Top 20 eBooks

  1. Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R / Laura Chihara, Tim Hesterberg
  2. Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches / edited by Lindsay Guarino and Wendy Oliver
  3. Gaza:  A History / Jean-Pierre Filiu ; translated by John King
  4. Handbook of Disaster Research / Havidan Rodriguez, William Donner, Joseph E. Trainor, editors
  5. The Intimate Act of Choreography / Lynne Anne Blom and L. Tarin Chaplin
  6. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality / Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton
  7. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America / Daniel K. Richter
  8. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites / Mitchell L. Stevens
  9. Traditions in World Cinema / edited by Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer, and Steven Jay Schneider
  10. Rural Indigenousness: A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks / Melissa Otis
  11. Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  12. All the Agents and Saints / Stephanie Elizondo Griest
  13. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball / Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
  14. Fashion: A Very Short Introduction / Rebecca Arnold
  15. Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader / edited by Penny A. Weiss, with Megan Brueske
  16. Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile / Brenda Elsey
  17. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance / Tareq Baconi
  18. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good / written and gathered by Adrienne Maree Brown
  19. Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy / by Dave Zirin
  20. Children of Lucifer: the Origins of Modern Religious Satanism / Ruben van Luijk

Links to Top 20 eBooks

Top 20 Streaming Videos

  1. La Grande Illusion         
  2. The Story of Oil   
  3. Mindfulness as Brain Training   
  4. I Am Not Your Negro     
  5. Dogtooth          
  6. The Firemen’s Ball         
  7. Three Musketeers - Part II: Milady          
  8. Sugar Coated   
  9. The Three Musketeers - Part I: D'Artagnan
  10. Anthropocene: The Human Epoch        
  11. Unnatural Causes: When the Bough Breaks
  12. Dolores             
  13. Bad Faith           
  14. Trail of Tears     
  15. The Witch          
  16. The Moors and the Glory of al-Andalus 
  17. Eiffel
  18. How to Blow Up a Pipeline        
  19. Rickshaw Girl   
  20. Seeds of Destruction

Top 20 Journals

  1. Journal of Chemical Education
  2. Scientific Reports
  3. Nature
  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  5. Public Library of Science One
  6. Science
  7. Archives of Sexual Behavior
  8. Climatic Change
  9. The Lancet
  10. Sex Roles
  11. Current Biology
  12. Science of the Total Environment
  13. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  14. Journal of American College Health
  15. Sexuality and Culture
  16. Journal of Organic Chemistry
  17. Biological Conservation
  18. Nature Communications
  19. Journal of Sex Research
  20. Psychological Science