U.S. Cities: St. Louis, Missouri (nonfiction)
1. 
Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Harper Barnes
4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings 2. 
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
by:
Walter Johnson
4.39 avg rating — 1,915 ratings 
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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
by:
Colin Gordon
4.02 avg rating — 161 ratings 5. 
Egan's Rats: The Untold Story of the Prohibition-Era Gang That Ruled St. Louis
by:
Daniel Waugh
3.62 avg rating — 48 ratings 
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St. Louis Crime Chronicles: The First 200 Years, 1764-1964
by:
Bill Lhotka
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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That's the Way it Was: Stories of Struggle, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
15. 
The Story of a Border City During the Civil War
by:
Galusha Anderson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Rising on the River: St. Louis 1822 to 1850, Explosive Growth from Town to City it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Boys Who Were Left Behind: The 1944 World Series Between the Hapless St. Louis Browns and the Legendary St. Louis Cardinals
by:
John Heidenry
3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings 20. 
Dream by the River: Two Centuries of Saint Louis Catholicism, 1766-1997 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park
by:
Carol Grove
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 24. 
The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch
by:
Jim Merkel
3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings 24. 
Tower Grove Park Of The City Of St. Louis (1883)
by:
David H. MacAdam
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Beer, Brats, & Baseball: German-Americans in St. Louis
by:
Jim Merkel
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 24 ratings 29. 
Great River City: How the Mississippi Shaped St. Louis
by:
Andrew Wanko
4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Anheuser-Busch, The King's Reign: The History of the Brewery in St. Louis
by:
Bob Rose
2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
35. 
Ghosts of Jefferson Barracks: History & Hauntings of Old St. Louis
by:
David Goodwin
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 37. 
St. Louis Brews: The History of Brewing in the Gateway City
by:
Henry Herbst
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics
by:
Charles Lumpkins
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings 
43. 
Meet Me in St. Louis: A Trip to the 1904 World's Fair
by:
Robert Jackson
3.62 avg rating — 55 ratings 
45.
Washington University in St. Louis: A History
by:
Ralph E. Morrow
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 46. 
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The Big 50: St. Louis Cardinals: The Men and Moments that Made the St. Louis Cardinals
by:
Benjamin Hochman
4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings 47. 
Stan Musial: "The Man's" Own Story as told to Bob Broeg
by:
Stan Musial
4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings 49. 
The Cardinals Way: How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time
by:
Howard Megdal
3.52 avg rating — 265 ratings 
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Gaslight Square Illuminated: The Rise & Fall of St. Louis' Premier 'Hot Spot'
by:
Rich Fuegner
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 53. 
Haunted St. Louis: History & Hauntings Along the Mississippi
by:
Troy Taylor
3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings 53. 
The 50 Greatest Players in St. Louis Cardinals History
by:
Robert W. Cohen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 
55. 
Bubbles the Dwarf Zebu: A Story about Finding a Home at the Saint Louis Zoo
by:
Carolyn Mueller
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 
58. 
Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis (Volume 1)
by:
Andrew Hurley
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings 
60. 
At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family's Journey toward Civil Rights (Volume 1) 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Song of Faith and Hope: The Life of Frankie Muse Freeman (Volume 1) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Bill Clay: A Political Voice at the Grass Roots (Volume 1)
by:
William L. Clay
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 63. 
Historic North St. Louis (Images of America: Illinois)
by:
Albert Montesi
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 64. 
The Making of an All-America City East St. Louis at 150
by:
Mark Abbott
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 65. 
In the Shadow of Dred Scott: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Famous-Barr: St. Louis Shopping at Its Finest (Landmark Department Stores) 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
by:
Clarence Lang
4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings 69. 
Abandoned in the Heartland: Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis 3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896
by:
Julian Curzon
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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My East St.Louis , A collection of Authentic Personal Stories from my Life growing up in East St. Louis
by:
Tymon Shipp
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 73. 
Making a Difference: The Story of Irl Solomon and the Difference One Teacher Made in the Schools of East St. Louis
by:
Joe Regenbogen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 74. 
The St. Louis Baseball Reader (Sports and American Culture) (Volume 1)
by:
Richard Peterson
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings 
77. 
St. Louis Lost: Uncovering the City's Architectural Treasures
by:
Mary Bartley
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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A Most Unsettled State: First-person Accounts of St. Louis During the Civil War
by:
NiNi Harris
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 80. 
The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War
by:
Adam Arenson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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The Architecture of Maritz & Young: Exceptional Historic Homes of St. Louis
by:
Kevin Amsler
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 84. 
Up from Canaan: The African American Journey from Mound Bayou to St. Louis (Missouri Lives Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Harold Gibbons: St. Louis Teamsters Leader and Warrior Against Jim Crow
by:
Gordon Burnside
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 86. 
The Tootin' Louie: A History of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway
by:
Don L. Hofsommer
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 87. 
Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900 - 1930
by:
Joseph Heathcott
4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings 88. 
Zion in the Valley: The Jewish Community of St. Louis, Volume 1: 1807-1907
by:
Walter Ehrlich
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 89. 
Zion in the Valley, Volume II: The Jewish Community of St. Louis, Volume II, The Twentieth Century (Volume 2)
by:
Walter Ehrlich
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 90. 
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: A History of Colonial St. Louis (Volume 1)
by:
Patricia Cleary
3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973
by:
Dennis Owsley
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 94. 
Up North: St. Louis’s Summer Colonies on Lake Huron in the Golden Age of Travel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Dizzy and the Gas House Gang: The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals and Depression-Era Baseball
by:
Doug Feldmann
4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings 96. 
Wetter Than the Mississippi: Prohibition in St. Louis and Beyond
by:
Robbi Courtaway
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 97. 
Chinese St Louis: From Enclave To Cultural Community
by:
Huping Ling
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Whose Fair? Experience, Memory & the History of the Great St. Louis Exposition 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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That St. Louis Thing Vol. 1: An American Story of Roots, Rhythm and Race
by:
Bruce R Olson
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings