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 January 8:
Adult:
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- Light Bringer by Chris DiGiuseppe and Mike Force
- Finally A Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis by Amanda Doyle
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- Light Fuse and Run by Bob Reuter
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Children/Young Adult:
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Press Here by Herve Tullet
- Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
- Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- Stuck by Oliver Jeffers