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 29:
Adult:
- Finally a Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis by and for St. Louisans by Amanda Doyle
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- Bear in My Bed & a Jackal in My Oven by Lourie Avinoam
- Light Bringer by Chris DiGiuseppe and Mike Force
- The Adjustment by Scott Phillips
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel
- How Do You Kill 11 Million People? by Andy Andrews
- Private Paradise: Contemporary American Gardens by Charlotte Frieze
- Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Children/Young Adult:
- A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson and John Hendrix
- Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
- The Berenstain Bears' Valentine's Day Party by Jan Berenstain & Mike Berenstain
- Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) by Deborah Hopkinson and John Hendrix
- Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
- Wither by Lauren DeStefano
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
