"The Hunger Games" Tops the Bestseller List for Local Independent Book Stores

Here's a roundup of the best-selling books in five St. Louis-area independent bookstores from the week ending Jan. 1. 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. Finally a Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis by and for St. Louisans Neighborhood by Neighborhood by Amanda Doyle

2. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

4. Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds by Richard Crossley

5. Stone Soup Cottage Cookbook by Carl and Nancy McConnell

6. Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh

7. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

8. Mad Madame Lalaurie by Victoria Love

9. Go the F--- to Sleep by Adam Mansbach 

10. Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James

Children's/Young Adult

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

2. Future of Us by Jay Asher

3. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

4. 2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow's Kids by Amy Zuckerman

5. Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

6. The Secret History of Mermaids and Creatures of the Deep by Professor Ari Berk

7. Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

8. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

9. First Kill by Heather Brewer

10. Floors by Patrick Carman