Kristen Ashley's romance Hold On tops our list of bestselling titles on the Smashwords platform for September, with Ashley also nabbing the #11 spot with another romance, The 'Burg Series: The Complete Box Set.

In at #2 is Broken Silence, the second romance in the Silence series by Natasha Preston, who also took the #17 spot with the third book in the series, Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages. At #3 is the novel Diary Of An Oxygen Thief by Anonymous, while Alessandra Torre comes in at #4 with the romance Hollywood Dirt.

And rounding out our top five is Hal Elrod’s self-help title The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM).

On a list traditionally dominated by romance and erotica titles, a few authors writing in other genres were able to break into the top 25: Richard L. Sanders's sci-fi novel The Phoenix Darkness comes in at #6; Camilla Chafer's mystery Trigger Snappy finds a home at # 14; and a treble of YA novels -- Chanda Hahn's Forever (#8), Quinn Loftis's Surrender (#10), and Karen Lynch's Refuge (#12) -- make their way onto September's list.

Rank Title Author ISBN Genre Price
1 Hold On Kristen Ashley 9781311667021 Romance $3.99
2 Broken Silence Natasha Preston 9781301920686 Romance $2.99
3 Diary Of An Oxygen Thief Anonymous 9781452409535 Fiction $9.99
4 Hollywood Dirt Alessandra Torre 9781940941707 Romance $4.99
5 The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) Hal Elrod 9780979019760 Self-Help $9.97
6 The Phoenix Darkness Richard L. Sanders 9781311605535 Science Fiction $7.99
7 Broken Lives Brenda Kennedy 9781310235658 Romance $2.99
8 Forever Chanda Hahn 9780996104821 YA Fiction $4.99
9 Bound Forever Hanna Peach 9781310863196 Romance $3.99
10 Surrender Quinn Loftis 9781310384820 YA Fiction $2.99
11 The 'Burg Series: The Complete Box Set Kristen Ashley 9781310825231 Romance $14.95
12 Refuge Karen Lynch 9781310011504 YA Fiction $3.99
13 The Scars That Define Us M.N. Forgy 9781311982216 Erotica $3.99
14 Trigger Snappy Camilla Chafer 9781909577091 Mystery $3.99
15 Mending Hearts Brenda Kennedy 9781311520401 Romance $2.99
16 Enraptured Brenda K. Davies 9781311499608 Romance $3.99
17 "Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages" Natasha Preston 9781311298089 Romance $2.99
18 Beautiful Sacrifice Jamie McGuire 9781310704321 Romance $5.99
19 Deceit MJ Haag 9780988852389 Romance $3.99
20 Deal Breakers Laura Lee 9781311340108 Romance $2.99
21 Devastation MJ Haag 9781943051991 Romance $3.99
22 Mended Sydney Landon 9781311353504 Romance $2.99
23 Bulletproof Maci Bookout 9781618688651 Biography $9.99
24 Rule's Seduction Lynda Chance 9781310859786 Romance $3.99
25 Mud and Gold Shayne Parkinson 9781452303802 Fiction $2.99

Based on gross sales for the month of September.