Thinking about putting some St. Louis-related books on my Amazon list. So far I have St. Louis Then and Now and Walking St. Louis.



Any St. Louis book recommendations? Thanks.

Check out Left Bank Books, they have a good selection of St. Louis books. (and opening a downtown location very soon!)

There is a new book out by one of the McDonnell/Boeing execs. It is an interesting account of how a St. Louis guy joined McDonnell twenty five years ago, and subsequently sold a quarter trillion dollars worth of helicopters, missiles, and airplanes. He seems to attribute his success to St. Louis values, including amateur boxing: Gunn Sights by Tom Gunn.



http://www.gunnsights.com/RULES.html

Here are a few of my favorite tomes about my home...



St. Louis Plans: The Real and Ideal St. Louis



St. Louis: Landmarks and Historic Districts



A Guide to the Architecture of St. Louis (the edition I have is almost 20 years old, but it is still a great resource)



Streets and Streetcars of St. Louis: A Sentimental Journey (This is perhaps my favorite St. Louis book of all, and while there's some text with interesting information about streetcars and their routes, the real gems are the hundreds of photos of St. Louis in all of its urban glory, leading up to the demise of the St. Louis streetcar system in 1966.)



At $20 each, local books from the Images of America series provide a glimpse into the past of many city neighborhoods and outlying communities. There are several titles available- here are the ones I have:



Carondelet

Central West End

Downtown St. Louis

Historic North St. Louis

Route 66 in St. Louis



There are probably at least a dozen more- including some focusing on suburbs like University City, Brentwood, Kinloch, Florissant, and Ballwin.



Hope this helps...

These are the books that I actually own. I've used several of them for my classes in the last 2 years. In no particular order:



Where We Live A Guide to St. Louis Communities

Streets and Streetcars of St. Louis

St. Louis Then and Now

St. Louis Seen and Unseen

St. Louis For the Record

Under the Arch St. Louis Stories

St. Louis Lost

History of Carondelet

St. Louis Impressions

St. Louis 1875- 1940 Postcards

Lost Caves of St. Louis

Streets of St. Louis

St. Louis Evolution of an American Urban Landscape

St. Louis Metromorphosis

St. Louis Politics the Triumph of Tradition

Johnny Rabbit St. Louis Trivia Game

St. Plans the Ideal and Real St. Louis

Mapping Decline St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

Walking Historic Downtown St. Louis

Lion of the Valley St. Louis, Missouri 1764- 1980

I have:



St. Louis Then and Now

St. Louis Seen and Unseen

St. Louis Lost



I love all of them, but they also piss me off.