Chick Lit Author Tops Independent Booksellers List

Where We Belong by "chick-lit" author Emily Giffin is the number 1 read among adults at the St. Louis-area independent bookstores for the week ending Aug. 5.

The bookstores include  in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End,  in St. Charles and  in Webster Groves.

Adults

1. Where We Belong by Emily Giffin
2. Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James 
3. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
5. The Basement Quilt by Ann Hazelwood
6. I'm No PI by Alan Zacher
7. Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
8. The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds
9. Awareness by Anthony de Mello 
10. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

Children/Young Adult

1. Count to Sleep St. Louis by Adam Gamble
2. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3. Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
4. Ash by Malinda Lo 
5. Another Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone
6. Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers
7. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
8. I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
9. On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
10. Lego Hero Factory by Shari Last