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!

The Sparrow: A Novel (The Sparrow Series #1) Cover Image

Oryx and Crake (The MaddAddam Trilogy #1) Cover Image

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States 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.

The Council of Animals: A Novel Cover Image

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Cover Image

The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel Cover Image

Willie

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

Red Rising (Red Rising Series #1) Cover Image

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1) Cover Image

Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel Cover Image

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

Dave

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

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms Cover Image

The Silmarillion (Pre-Lord of the Rings) Cover Image

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #1) Cover Image

AHistory: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe (Fourth Edition Vol. 2) Cover Image

Our full-time journalist works here three days a week, and sometimes more, if Mapleweird has a cool event going on. She loves reading pretty much any memoir, or books by other journalists, and is trying to read lots of the classic literary works she missed out on earlier in life. She's a cat person, to put it lightly.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Cover Image

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Cover Image

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Cover Image

Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution Cover Image

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity 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.