After the January 10 release of the film adaptation of the book, Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson's Lone Survivor, originally published in 2007, pushed up one spot to hit the top of the Apple iBooks bestseller chart for the week ended January 13. The book beat out the previous best seller, Divergent, by Veronica Roth, leaving all of the titles in Roth's trilogy in the next three spots (landing in series order).
Released January 1, The Doctor's Diet, by Travis Stork debuted on the list at #6. After significant media attention, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' memoir, Duty, hit the #8 spot after a January 14 publication date.
Top Paid Books
1. Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson (Little, Brown and Company)
2. Divergent by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books)
3. Insurgent by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books)
4. Allegiant by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books)
5. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Penguin Group US)
6. The Doctor's Diet by Travis Stork (Bird Street Books)
7. Sycamore Row by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
8. Duty by Robert M. Gates (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
9. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishing Group)
10. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Company)
11. Command Authority by Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney (Penguin Group US)
12. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin Group US)
13, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Inc.)
14. Standup Guy by Stuart Woods (Penguin Group US)
15. The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort (Random House Publishing Group)
16. The Pound a Day Diet by Rocco DiSpirito (Grand Central Publishing)
17. Rome by Jay Crownover (William Morrow Paperbacks)
18. The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
19. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
20. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Random House Children's Books)