Dropping eight spots to #12, Grey by EL James was replaced at #4 by Andy Weir’s The Martian on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list for the week ended Aug. 31. Sandra Brown’s Friction remains at #2. The novel trails one spot behind Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train for the second consecutive week.

iBooks US Bestseller List – Paid Books
Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher
1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - 9780698185395 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
2. Friction by Sandra Brown - 9781455581177 - (Grand Central Publishing)
3. Small Wars: A Jack Reacher Story by Lee Child - 9780804178846 - (Random House Publishing Group)
4. The Martian by Andy Weir - 9780804139038 - (Crown/Archetype)
5. The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz - 9780385354295 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
6. The Murderer's Daughter by Jonathan Kellerman - 9780804177498 - (Random House Publishing Group)
7. Blurred Lines by Lauren Layne - 9781101886434 - (Random House Publishing Group)
8. Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner - 9781451617832 - (Atria Books)
9. X by Sue Grafton - 9781101614341 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
10. Alert by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge - 9780316407182 - (Little, Brown and Company)
11. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll - 9781476789651 - (Simon & Schuster)
12. Grey by E L James - 9781101946350 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
13. Biology by Ph.D., Joseph S. Levine & Kenneth R. Miller - 9780133226713 - (Pearson Education, Inc.)
14. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 9781476746609 - (Scribner)
15. World History by Dahia Ibo Shabaka, Larry S. Kreiger, Linda Black, Phillip C. Naylor & Roger B. Beck - 9780544025387 - (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
16. The Marriage Contract by Katee Robert - 9781455590469 - (Grand Central Publishing)
17. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - 9781466850606 - (St. Martin's Press)
18. The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory - 9781476758824 - (Touchstone)
19. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee - 9780062409874 - (Harper)
20. The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny - 9781250022097 - (St. Martin's Press)