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Best-selling books in St. Louis for the week ending September 18

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 18:

Adult:

  1. Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris
  2. Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton
  3. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
  4. Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
  5. Fatal Fixer Upper by Jennie Bentley
  6. Shards by Ismet Prcic
  7. The Adjustment by Scott Phillips
  8. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
  9. Live Wire by Harlan Coben
  10. Face Time by Hank Philippi Ryan

Children/Young Adult:

  1. Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham
  2. Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown
  3. Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
  4. Artemis Fowl #1 by Eoin Colfer
  5. Shelter by Harlan Coben
  6. You Will Be My Friend by Peter Brown
  7. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
  8. Wizard of Oz Scanimation by Rufus Butler Seder
  9. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
  10. Who's There on Halloween by Pamela Conn Beall

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