Staff Picks

The staff of Appletree Books read widely and regularly, and love to recommend books they’ve especially enjoyed! You can peruse and purchase current staff picks below.

The Bookbinder – Pip Williams (Ballantine)

Bert and Mamie Take a Cruise – John Keyse Walker (Severn House)

Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves – Quinn Connor (Sourcebooks)

Monstrilio – Gerardo Samano Cordova (Zando)

Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill – Geoffrey

Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History – Jeff Nussbaum (Flatiron Books)

Ethics In The Real World – Peter Singer (Princeton University Press)

River Of The Gods – Candice Mallard (Anchor Books)

Fellowship Point – Alice Elliott Dark (S&s/Marysue Rucci Books)

The Unsinkable Greta James – Jennifer E. Smith (Ballantine Books)

Flatlands – Sue Hubbard (Pushkin Press)

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle – Jody Rosen (Crown Publishing Group)

Nietzche In Italy – Guy De Pourtales (Pushkin Press)

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library – Hester Fox (Graydon House)

Villager – Tom Cox (Unbound)

Thus Was Adonis Murdered – Sarah Caudwell (Bantam)

Why Arguement Matters – Lee Siegel (Yale University Press)

The Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War – Deborah Cohem (Random House)

Who At the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History – Cody Cassidy (Penguin Books)

Nora Goes Off Script – Anabel Monaghan (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Fencing with the King – Diana Abu-Jaber (W.W. Norton & Company)

To the One I Love the Best – Ludwig Bemelmans (Puskin Press)

The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II – Judith Mackrell (Vintage)

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters – Andrew H. Knoll (Mariner Books)

Foster – Claire Keegan (Grove Press)

The Law of Innocence (Lincoln Lawyer Novel #6) – Michael Connelly (Grand Central Publishing)

The Cat Who Saved Books – Sosuke Natsukawa (Harpervia)

Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age – Dennis Duncan (W.W. Norton & Company)

The Good Left Undone – Adriana Trigiani (Dutton)

Why Architecture Matters – Paul Goldberger (Yale University Press)

Cown & Sceptre – Tracy Borman (Grove Atlantic)

Groundskeeping – Lee Cole (Penguin Random House)

The Paris Bookseller – Kerri Maher (Berkley Books)

The Big House – George Howe Colt (Scribner Book Company)

The Sweetness of Water – Nathan Harris (Back Bay Books)

Women On Nature – Katherine Norbury (Unbound)

In Praise of Paths – Torbjorn Ekelund (Greystone Books)

Water A Biography – Giulio Boccaletti (Vintage)

The Power of Geography – Tim Marshall (Scribner Book Company)

An Atlas of Extinct Countries – Gideon Defoe (Europa Compass)

Seven Games: A Human History – Oliver Roeder ( W.W. Norton & Company)

On Browsing – Jason Guriel (Biblioasis)

Hotel Splendide – Ludwig Bemelmans ( Puskin Press)

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty – Anderson Cooper (Harper Paperbacks)

Why Architecture Matters – Paul Goldberger (Yale University Press)

Finlay Donovan Knocks ’em Dead – Elle Cosimano (Minotaur Books)

A Month in the Country – Michael Holroyd (New York Review of Books)

The Maid – Nita Prose (Ballantine Books)

The Music of Bees – Eileen Garvin (Dutton)

When The Stars Go Dark – Paula McLain (Ballantine Books)

Susan, Linda, Nina, & Cokie – Lisa Napoli (Harry N. Abrams)

The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free – Paulina Bren (Simon & Schuster)

A Milkweed Chronicle – Emilie Buchwald (Milkweed Editions)

Be Frank With Me – Julia Claiborne Johnson (William Morrow & Company)

The Lost Apothecary – Sarah Penner (Park Row)

The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books)

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed – Helene Tursten (Soho Crime)

An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good – Helene Tursten (Soho Crime)

Eternal – Lisa Scottoline (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

The Splendid and the Vile – Erik Larson (Crown Publishing Group)

The Walker – Matthew Beaumont (Verso)

The Art of Solitude – Stephen Batchelor (Yale University Press)

The Vanished Collection – Pauline Baer de Perignon (New Vessel Press)

The Widow Clicquot – Tilar Mazzeo (Harper)

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World – Simon Winchester (Harper)

Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)