Veronica Roth's much-anticipated closer to her Divergent trilogy, Allegiant, was the top-selling paid book in the Apple iBooks store for the week ended October 28. John Grisham's newest, Sycamore Row, which features Jake Brigance of the writer's debut novel, A Time to Kill, landed in the #2 spot. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game slid up one spot to #3, just days before the November 1 release of the film adaptation of the novel. Last week's #1 book, The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarity, dropped to #4.
New to the list last week was Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, coming in at #6. A movie based on the book, starring Brad Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Northup, is garnering critical acclaim.
Top Paid Books
1. Allegiant by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books)
2. Sycamore Row by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Tom Doherty Associates)
4. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (Penguin Group US)
5. Divergent by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books)
6. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (Atria / 37 Ink)
7. Things That Matter by Charles Krauthammer (Crown Publishing Group)
8. Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard (Henry Holt and Co.)
9. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
10. Storm Front by John Sandford (Penguin Group US)
11. The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
12. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company)
13. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (Scribner)
14. The Proposition by Jennifer Lyon (Jennifer Lyon Books)
15. Insurgent by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books)
16. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Random House Children's Books)
17. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishing Group)
18. The Heroes of Olympus, Book Four: The House of Hades by Rick Riordan (Disney Publishing Worldwide)
19. Fifty Shades Darker by E L James (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
20. Gone by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown and Company)
