Books

Add these suggestions to your summer reading list.

Gerald Early’s “Play Harder” traces the impact of Black Americans on the game, from the post-Civil War era to today.

Ava Johnson couldn’t cartwheel. Her challenge became a life lesson, a book and, now, a play.

As Jurassic beasts roamed the Earth, a weasel-like animal called Morganucodon was making an evolutionary breakthrough in parenting.

Susan Polgar led Webster University’s chess team from 2012 to 2021. With her at the helm, the school won five straight Final Four national chess championships.

St. Louis University English professor Jonathan Sawday’s new book has won the James Russell Lowell Prize for the most outstanding book published in 2023.

St. Louis native Eric von Schrader set his science fiction trilogy in a reimagined version of St. Louis. All three books and audiobooks are out now.

Ted Reidy of St. Louis Public Library and Tammy Albohaire of St. Louis County Library share their favorite books released in 2024.

The new book from Reedy Press contains colorful prints of maps spanning St. Louis history from the 1760s to the present day.

The cookbook celebrates the state’s many ethnicities and cultures and puts it on your plate.