Ebooks Minnesota's most viewed titles of 2025

Each year, usage data from Ebooks Minnesota and Ebooks Minnesota for Schools offers a helpful snapshot of what people across the state are actually reading. From popular nonfiction and timely topics to classroom-friendly titles, the most-viewed books reflect a wide range of interests and needs.

Below are the Top 10 Viewed Titles on each platform. These lists highlight the ebooks that received the most views from users statewide - giving librarians, educators, and readers a sense of what resonated most with Minnesotans this past year.

Whether you’re looking for ideas to promote, titles to explore, or insight into broader reading trends, these lists provide a useful starting point.

Top 10 Viewed Titles in Ebooks Minnesota

Popular books that drew the highest views from general users across the state are listed in order of greatest use.

• Homer’s The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel - 1,247 views
• Mni sota makoce: The land of the Dakota - 855 views
• A good time for the truth: Race in Minnesota - 515 views
• "All the real Indians died off" and 20 other myths about Native Americans - 474 views
• The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness - 468 views
• Star Attack! - 387 views
• Ways to make sunshine - 337 views
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - 335 views
  (Note: this title is no longer available in Ebooks Minnesota due to the expiration of a subscription license.)
• The latehomecomer: A Hmong family memoir - 333 views
• The 13th target - 316 views

Taken together, this list suggests that Minnesotans are gravitating toward a mix of accessible classics, Minnesota-centered history, and books that help make sense of social and personal challenges. The popularity of The Odyssey in graphic novel form suggests a potential class/school-wide assignment, or a strong interest in familiar texts presented in more visual and approachable formats.

Meanwhile, several highly viewed titles focus on Indigenous history, race, and identity. At the same time, books about mental health, childhood, and contemporary anxieties indicate a desire to understand current social pressures, balanced by fiction and youth titles that offer story-driven reading experiences.

Top 10 Viewed Titles in Ebooks Minnesota for Schools

Curriculum-friendly and classroom-supported titles most accessed by students and educators.

• Failure: Disasters in history - 408 views
• The Great Depression - 400 views
• The sinking of the Titanic: A history perspectives book - 330 views
• The 9/11 attacks - 319 views
• Alone - 240 views
  (Note: this title is no longer available in Ebooks Minnesota due to the expiration of a subscription license.)
• 20th century: Race to the moon - 230 views
• 20,000 leguas de viaje submarino - 189 views
• Pearl Harbor - 187 views
• Poison dart frog - 187 views
• Harpy eagle - 177 views 

These titles point to a strong interest in major historical events, disasters, and turning points, particularly those often studied in school settings. Students are engaging with topics that explain large-scale crises and moments of change, such as economic collapse, wars, technological milestones, and natural or human-made disasters, which suggests a focus on understanding cause, impact, and historical context.

The numbers for Ebooks Minnesota for Schools are lower because students typically access these titles through their school’s own MackinVIA account, so usage isn’t always captured in the statewide Ebooks MN statistics.