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Best-selling books in St. Louis for the week ending September 11

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Below is the top-ten list of the St. Louis region's best-selling adult and children's books. The list is compiled by the St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance.

For the week ending September 11:

Adult:

  1. Time to Plant: Southern-Style Garden Living by James T. Farmer
  2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  3. Bossypants by Tina Fey
  4. The Heart and The Fist by Eric Greitens
  5. Noir at the Bar edited by Jedediah Ayers and Scott Phillips
  6. Unlikely Friendships by Jennifer Holland
  7. The Leftovers by Tom Perotta
  8. The Magician King by Lev Grossman
  9. Go The F* To Sleep by Adam Mansbach
  10. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

 

Children/Young Adult:

  1. Skippyjon Jones, Class Action by Judy Schachner
  2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
  3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  4. Runaway Twin by Peg Kehret
  5. Feed by M.T. Anderson
  6. Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
  7. Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles Book One by Colin Meloy
  8. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
  9. The Bridge to Never Land by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
  10. The Wizard of Oz Scanimation by Rufus Butler Seder

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