https://www.burtonsbooks.com/staff-picks daily 0.75 2025-02-23 https://www.burtonsbooks.com/staff-picks/deep-cuts monthly 0.5 2025-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6508d9021f4f3b2f5b3d74ca/af13c0a0-89f1-4271-b8e4-d6b9a751dca6/214269394.jpg Staff Picks - Deep Cuts - Jess’s Pick Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow meets normal people, with all the nostalgia of almost famous and high fidelity. That sentence coming from me is insane but pls trust me. This was the most fun I’ve had reading a book, with my phone open to spotify the whole time adding every song mentioned. I really think it’s gonna be hard to read a better book this year !!!! Here is the 7 1/2 hr playlist (you’re welcome) Give this playlist a listen: deep cuts by holly brickley https://open.spotify.com/playlist/06L... https://www.burtonsbooks.com/staff-picks/invisible-cities monthly 0.5 2025-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6508d9021f4f3b2f5b3d74ca/bd41190d-8b0e-4799-ad1d-7e09aa7d598f/27385980.jpg Staff Picks - Invisible Cities - Jess’s Pick It’s true that girls run the world because most of these invisible cities are named after women. Absolutely loved the scenes of Marco Polo and Kublai Kahn having philosophical convos in Kahn’s garden. Dream blunt rotation if my brain allowed me to tolerate drugs. https://www.burtonsbooks.com/staff-picks/jane-austens-bookshelf monthly 0.5 2025-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6508d9021f4f3b2f5b3d74ca/925240bc-544d-444c-a80f-e5249e43093d/214152206.jpg Staff Picks - Jane Austen's Bookshelf - Jess’s Pick This has been sitting on my shelf for months and realized it came out today so I had to stop everything to read it and I’m soooo glad I did. It truly awakened many niche interests, some that I forgot I even had: bookselling (not forgotten), Jane Austen (not forgotten), history of the book (forgotten since college). I wrote a paper about the history of the 1816 Philadelphia edition of EMMA back in sophomore year, and I remember having the best time searching the history of a singular book and the materiality, the process of it all. Reading Rebecca Romney in conversation with scholars I researched (Ian Watt, Juliette Wells etc) brought me back to when I genuinely enjoyed learning which is a rare thing to happen outside of college for me. Outside of the pull from my interests, Romney is just a fabulous non fiction writer and I was never bored reading about regency era writers. She encapsulated how Austen’s women influences got dropped from the cannon so well, and didn’t just prop it up to “oh it was just sexism.” Yes, that’s inherently true, but Romney brought such a nuanced approach to the topic of how generations tastes can be shaped by just a few people’s insults of a writer at the right time. She also wrote about this in such a modern way that made it palpable for me, which was much needed after brushing off the dust of my university style reading. I found myself even laughing at one off comments made and annotated in my own chaotic sticky notes. As a former bookseller, this was so interesting to see the side of rare bookselling I have very little knowledge of and how it takes such a different skill set than being an indie bookseller. But I was also able to relate on so many levels about bookselling, specifically when Romney went into the unique experience of “learning how to talk with authority about books you haven’t read, either because you’ve read a lot about those books, or because you can place that book in a wider historical context that you do know well.” I could not have put that into words more clearer!! I am now going to read all of the women writers’ who shaped Jane Austen (I probably won’t). https://www.burtonsbooks.com/staff-picks/convenience-store-woman monthly 0.5 2025-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6508d9021f4f3b2f5b3d74ca/c52b4003-95f3-4d05-a1b0-4c672148c1ac/71K1cEWkDGL._SY425_.jpg Staff Picks - Convenience Store Woman - Annica’s Pick Short and engaging. https://www.burtonsbooks.com/staff-picks/a-crown-of-ivy-and-glass-by-claire-legrand monthly 0.5 2025-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6508d9021f4f3b2f5b3d74ca/c030cb91-b566-4f45-b273-725151068e0c/crown+of+ivy+cover.jpg Staff Picks - A CROWN OF IVY AND GLASS - Cailin’s Pick Bridgerton meets A Court of Thorns and Roses meets gothic Bronte vibes in this stunning romantic fantasy by Cailin’s favorite author! Claire Legrand’s prose is beautiful, her worldbuilding lush and decadent, and her romance steamy and swoon-worthy. A Crown of Ivy and Glass is full of magic & monsters, and features a heroine who deals not only with said magic & monsters but also with anxiety, panic attacks, and chronic pain. Sweeping, epic romantic fantasy with mental health rep? 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Through a biography of the problematic taxonomist David Starr Jordan, Miller demystifies our preconceived notions of the world of science. Lifechanging!! — Jess https://www.burtonsbooks.com/staff-picks/animal-by-lisa-taddeo monthly 0.5 2023-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6508d9021f4f3b2f5b3d74ca/4190ac7f-a252-4927-85ca-f7806b9e122b/71qZrKWiiHL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg Staff Picks - Animal by lisa taddeo An ode to Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion, but way more unhinged. I’ve never had such a visceral reaction to a book before. Consider yourself warned—depraved women for the win! —Jess https://www.burtonsbooks.com/staff-picks/braiding-sweetgrass monthly 0.5 2024-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6508d9021f4f3b2f5b3d74ca/fe7bb1e6-ae80-476c-af73-39545e8f9fae/BraidingSweetgrass_PB_Cover_NB.jpg Staff Picks - Braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer - This book changed the way I viewed the human/nature relationship. Kimmerer combines her poetic lyricism with her indigenous scientific knowledge to create stunningly written essays that will stick with me forever. One of my favorite books ever! 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