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Best-selling books in St. Louis for the week ending February 26

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Below is the top-ten list of the St. Louis region's best-selling adult and children's books, according to the St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance.

For the week ending February 26:

Adult:

  1. Take the Stairs by Rory Vaden
  2. Things I Learned While Walking by Daunte Henderson
  3. Into the Storm by Reed Timmer
  4. Bossypants by Tina Fey
  5. Finally a Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis... by Amanda Doyle
  6. Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
  7. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by Fiona Carnarvon
  8. Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  9. Splendid Table's How to Eat Weekends by Lynne Rossetto Kasper
  10. Shame the Devil by Debra Brenegan

Children/Young Adult:

  1. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
  3. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
  4. George Brown, Class Clown: Attack of the Tighty Whities! by Nancy Krulik
  5. One Dark Night by Lisa Wheeler
  6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
  7. Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
  8. George Brown, Class Clown: Super Burp by Nancy Krulik
  9. Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack
  10. Magic Hat by Mem Fox

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