Best-selling books in St. Louis for the week ending October 16

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 9:

Adult:

1. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2. Good Eats 3: The Later Years by Alton Brown
3. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. Little Black Dress by Susan McBride
5. Boomerang by Michael Lewis
6. Noir at the Bar by Jedidiah Ayers and Scott Phillips
7. Guinness World Records 2012 by Guinness World Records
8. Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn
9. The Beekeeper's Lament by Hannah Nordhaus
10. Night by Elie Wiesel

Children/Young Adult:

1. Money Tree by Sarah Stewart
2. Heroes of Olympus Book 2: Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
3. Same But Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
4. Ripley's Believe It or Not!: Special Edition 2012
5. Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka
6. Travel to Tomorrow by Angela Sage Larsen
7. Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
8. Spaceheadz #2 by Jon Scieszka
9. Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein
10. Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans