There are many “Best Books of 2025 So Far” lists out right now, so I chose some of the top picks to share with you.

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (921 Twain)

• Amazon’s Best Books of 2025 So Far

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (599.324 Dalton)

• New York Times Best of the Year (So Far)

• Spotify’s Best Biography & Memoir of the Year So Far

There is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (362.592 Goldsto)

• New York Times Best Books of the Year (So Far)

Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson (973.3 Atkinso)

• New York Times Best Books of the Year (So Far)

Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles-Lawson (920 Knowles)

• Amazon’s Best Books of 2025 So Far

• Spotify’s Best Audiobooks of the Year So Far

• Apple’s Best Books of the Year (So Far)

• Audible’s Best of the Year (So Far)

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams (302.32 WynnWil)

• New York Times Best Books of the Year (So Far)

• Amazon’s Best Books of 2025 So Far

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst (910.9164 Elmhirs)

• New York Times Best Books of the Year (So Far)

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, A True Story of Abduction, Adoption and Separated Twins by Barbara Demick (362.734 Demick)

• New York Times Best Books of the Year (So Far)

No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris (338.7616 Harris)

• Amazon’s Best Books of 2025 So Far

Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose by Martha Beck (152.46 Beck)

• Spotify’s Best Self-Help of the Year So Far

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser (364.1523 Fraser)

• Spotify’s Best Audiobooks of the Year So Far

Let Them Theory: A Life Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins (158.1 Robbins)

• Publishers Weekly #1 Best Selling Book of 2025 So Far

If you’d like to request these or any other titles, visit www.newulmlibrary.org and choose Library Catalog, or call the library at 507-359-8331. New Ulm Public Library is located at 17 North Broadway and is open from 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday. The library will be closed on Monday September 1, for Labor Day.