"Bossypants" Tops Local Bookstore Best-Seller List

Here's a round up of the best-selling books in five St. Louis-area independent bookstores from the week of Jan. 8. The bookstores include Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles,  Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves, Subterranean Books in University City, and Sue's News at the St. Louis Galleria.

Adults:

1. "Bossypants" by Tina Fey

2. "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes

3. "Light Bringer" by Chris DiGiuseppe and Mike Force

4. "Finally A Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis" by Amanda Doyle

5. "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua

6. "Light Fuse and Run" by Bob Reuter

7. "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen

8. "Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Shaffer and Annie Barrows

9. "1Q84" by Haruki Murakami

10. "Cleopatra: A Life" by Stacy Schiff

Children/YA:

1. "Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

2. "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

3. "Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats

4. "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown

5. "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

6. "Press Here" by Herve Tullet

7. "Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick

8. "Every Thing On It" by Shel Silverstein

9. "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

10. "Stuck" by Oliver Jeffers