Staff Picks

Michelle

The Book House founder and owner since 1986, mother of three, rare book specialist and appraiser. Need a book? She can find it!

“Books unite us. Sharing stories important to us means sharing a part of ourselves. Books reach across boundaries and build connections between readers. Censorship, on the other hand, divides us and creates barriers.”

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor) Cover Image

Call Us What We Carry: Poems By Amanda Gorman Cover Image

The Lincoln Highway: A Novel By Amor Towles Cover Image

Station Eleven By Emily St. John Mandel Cover Image

The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin By Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Image

Theo

Political science major and junior at Harris Stowe State University. Seeker of knowledge and enlightenment overall and within all things where knowledge may be found.

The Prophet By Kahlil Gibran Cover Image

The Rose That Grew From Concrete By Tupac Shakur Cover Image

Behold a Pale Horse By William Cooper Cover Image

Native Son: A Novel By Richard Wright Cover Image

Willie

Almost as tall as Dave; likes giving treats to dogs.

Red Rising (Red Rising Series #1) By Pierce Brown Cover Image

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1) By Dennis E. Taylor Cover Image

Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel By Ray Bradbury Cover Image

The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle #1) By Patrick Rothfuss Cover Image

Robby

Arrived in St. Louis in 2015; loves it all except for that weird stuff you call cheese. Will read almost anything, especially if it has nice typesetting.

Amphigorey: Fifteen Books By Edward Gorey Cover Image

Sea of Tranquility: A novel By Emily St. John Mandel Cover Image

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger By Stephen King Cover Image

Anne of Green Gables (Puffin in Bloom) By L. M. Montgomery, Anna Bond (Illustrator) Cover Image

Seveneves By Neal Stephenson Cover Image

Dave

Our British ex-patriate, unreasonably and willfully tall. Lives and breathes Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Magical Realism. And cat fur.

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #1) By Dan Simmons Cover Image

Accelerando (Singularity #3) By Charles Stross Cover Image

Gormenghast By Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp (Afterword by) Cover Image

Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem By Simon Singh, John Lynch (Foreword by) Cover Image

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect By Roger Williams Cover Image

Welcome to the Book House

We are located in historic downtown Maplewood in the St. Louis metro area:

The Book House
7352 Manchester Rd.
Maplewood, MO 63143

Phone: 314-968-4491
Email: info@bookhousestl.com

We are now fully open for browsing!
Monday through Saturday: 11 AM–8 PM
Sunday: 1-6 PM

Shop Early this Holiday Season!

The Publishing Industry is again expecting supply chain issues during the holidays, so we recommend starting your gift shopping now, to avoid delays!

#STEMReads

The Book House is partnered with the American Booksellers Association's #STEMReads program to bring 20,000 copies of The Last Mapmaker across the country in underserved communities - for more details, click here, or click here to order a personal copy!

Science Friday Book Club

Listeners to NPR's Science Friday may know that the program also has a monthly book club, with recommendations each month.

If you'd like to join the discussion of the books, you can visit their website here, and all books featured can also be directly ordered from the Book House!

September: Vagina Obscura by Rachel E Gross

October: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

November: The Sounds of Life by Karen Bakke r