The top-selling title on the Smashwords platform for August was Diary of an Oxygen Thief, a 2009 novel by an anonymous author that’s been billed as Fight Club meets Mad Men.

At #2 is the romance Broken Silence, the second installment the Silence series by Natasha Preston, who also grabbed the #25 spot with the third book in the series, Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages. Snagging the #3 spot is Jamie McGuire’s romance Something Beautiful. McGuire also took the #8 and #17 spots with other books in the Maddox Brothers series, Beautiful Sacrifice and Beautiful Redemption.

In at #4 is Maci Bookout of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom fame, with the memoir Bulletproof.

Other notable nonfiction titles on this month’s list, which is again dominated by romance, are Hal Elrod’s self-help title The Miracle Morning and Real Housewives of New York City star Ramona Singer’s memoir, Life on the Ramona Coaster.

Rank Title Author Genre ISBN Price
1 Diary of an Oxygen Thief Anonymous Fiction 9781452409535 $9.99
2 Broken Silence Natasha Preston Romance 9781301920686 $2.99
3 Something Beautiful Jamie McGuire Romance 9781310478833 $2.99
4 Bulletproof Maci Bookout Biography 9781618688651 $9.99
5 Refuge Karen Lynch YA Fiction 9781310011504 $3.99
6 Beneath Blood and Bone Claire C Riley and Madelein Sheehan Romance 9781311829207 $3.99
7 Forever Chanda Hahn YA Fiction 9780996104821 $4.99
8 Beautiful Sacrifice Jamie McGuire Romance 9781310704321 $5.99
9 Capture Rachel Van Dyken Romance 9781942246459 $2.99
10 The Everlasting Chapel Marilyn Cruise Romance 9781311318428 $3.99
11 The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) Hal Elrod Self-Help 9780979019760 $9.97
12 Life on the Ramona Coaster Ramona Singer Biography 9781618688750 $9.99
13 Mended Sydney Landon Romance 9781311353504 $2.99
14 Mud and Gold Shayne Parkinson Fiction 9781452303802 $2.99
15 The White Chapel Marilyn Cruise Romance 9781311230973 $2.99
16 Not You It's Me Julie Johnson Romance 9780991311392 $4.99
17 Beautiful Redemption Jamie McGuire Romance 9781310863929 $5.99
18 Settling the Account Shayne Parkinson Fiction 9781452303840 $2.99
19 All For This Lexi Ryan Romance 9781940832951 $3.99
20 Sabotage Dale Wiley Thriller 9781310917455 $1.99
21 Forever We Fall Chloe Walsh Romance 9781311620477 $2.99
22 The Paper Swan Leylah Attar Romance 9780993752797 $3.99
23 Fall On Me Chloe Walsh Romance 9781311674944 $2.99
24 Fall To You Lexi Ryan Romance 9781940832944 $3.99
25 Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages Natasha Preston Romance 9781311298089 $2.99

Based on gross sales for the month of August.