Books with big screen adaptations dominated Apple’s iBooks chart for the week ended December 1. Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl came in at #1—the movie version opened in theaters on October 3. At #2 was Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, adapted into a film by Angelina Jolie to premiere on Christmas Day.
Last week’s top seller, Captivated By You by Sylvia Day dropped to the #4 spot. Another page-to-screen title, Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild, reappeared at #6. The film adaptation, with Reese Witherspoon as Strayed, opens in theaters on December 5.
iBooks US Bestseller List - Paid Books
1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - 9780307588388 - (Crown Publishing Group)
2. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - 9780679603757 - (Random House Publishing Group)
3. The Burning Room by Michael Connelly - 9780316225922 - (Little, Brown and Company)
4. Captivated By You by Sylvia Day - 9780698153462 - (Penguin Group US)
5. The Escape by David Baldacci - 9781455521272 - (Grand Central Publishing)
6. Wild by Cheryl Strayed - 9780307957658 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
7. Hope to Die by James Patterson - 9780316210942 - (Little, Brown and Company)
8. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn - 9780307459923 - (Crown Publishing Group)
9. Personal by Lee Child - 9780804178761 - (Random House Publishing Group)
10. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - 9780698138636 - (Penguin Group US)
11. Gray Mountain by John Grisham - 9780385539166 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
12. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James - 9781612130293 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
13. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - 9781101569184 - (Penguin Group US)
14. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty - 9780062008671 - (Harper Perennial)
15. The Maze Runner by James Dashner - 9780375893773 - (Random House Children's Books)
16. If I Stay by Gayle Forman - 9781101046340 - (Penguin Group US)
17. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - 9780545698245 - (Scholastic Inc.)
18. Private: #1 Suspect by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro - 9780316097413 - (Little, Brown and Company)
19. The English Girl by Daniel Silva - 9780062073204 - (Harper)
20. Revival by Stephen King - 9781476770406 - (Scribner)
