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 October 9:
Adult:
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Good Eats 3: The Later Years by Alton Brown
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Little Black Dress by Susan McBride
- Boomerang by Michael Lewis
- Noir at the Bar by Jedidiah Ayers and Scott Phillips
- Guinness World Records 2012 by Guinness World Records
- Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn
- The Beekeeper's Lament by Hannah Nordhaus
- Night by Elie Wiesel
Children/Young Adult:
- Money Tree by Sarah Stewart
- Heroes of Olympus Book 2: Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
- Same But Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!: Special Edition 2012
- Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka
- Travel to Tomorrow by Angela Sage Larsen
- Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
- Spaceheadz #2 by Jon Scieszka
- Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein
- Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans
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