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.

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)