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 30:
Adult:
- Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin by Stephanie Pearl McPhee
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Tony DuQuette/Hutton Wilkinson Jewelry by Hutton Wilkinson and Stephanie Hanchett
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Little Black Dress by Susan McBride
- The Adjustment by Scott Phillips
- The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits by Kent Greenfield (listen to our interview with the author).
- Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
- Gently Down the Stream by Bill McClellan
Children/YA: (4 stores had author events with Godon Korman this week)
- Medusa Plot: 39 Clues: Cahills vs Vespers #1 by Gordon Korman
- Zoobreak by Gordon Korman
- Titanic # 1: Unsinkable by Gordon Korman
- Liar, Liar Pants on Fire by Gordon Korman
- How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
- Swindle by Gordon Korman
- Heroes of Olympus-Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
- The 39 Clues Book 11: Vespers Rising by Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, Jude Watson
- The 39 Clues Book 8: The Emperor's Code by Gordon Korman
- I Believe in You by Marianne Richmond