The top-selling title on the Smashwords platform for August was Diary of an Oxygen Thief, a 2009 novel by an anonymous author that’s been billed as Fight Club meets Mad Men.
At #2 is the romance Broken Silence, the second installment the Silence series by Natasha Preston, who also grabbed the #25 spot with the third book in the series, Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages. Snagging the #3 spot is Jamie McGuire’s romance Something Beautiful. McGuire also took the #8 and #17 spots with other books in the Maddox Brothers series, Beautiful Sacrifice and Beautiful Redemption.
In at #4 is Maci Bookout of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom fame, with the memoir Bulletproof.
Other notable nonfiction titles on this month’s list, which is again dominated by romance, are Hal Elrod’s self-help title The Miracle Morning and Real Housewives of New York City star Ramona Singer’s memoir, Life on the Ramona Coaster.
Rank | Title | Author | Genre | ISBN | Price |
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1 | Diary of an Oxygen Thief | Anonymous | Fiction | 9781452409535 | $9.99 |
2 | Broken Silence | Natasha Preston | Romance | 9781301920686 | $2.99 |
3 | Something Beautiful | Jamie McGuire | Romance | 9781310478833 | $2.99 |
4 | Bulletproof | Maci Bookout | Biography | 9781618688651 | $9.99 |
5 | Refuge | Karen Lynch | YA Fiction | 9781310011504 | $3.99 |
6 | Beneath Blood and Bone | Claire C Riley and Madelein Sheehan | Romance | 9781311829207 | $3.99 |
7 | Forever | Chanda Hahn | YA Fiction | 9780996104821 | $4.99 |
8 | Beautiful Sacrifice | Jamie McGuire | Romance | 9781310704321 | $5.99 |
9 | Capture | Rachel Van Dyken | Romance | 9781942246459 | $2.99 |
10 | The Everlasting Chapel | Marilyn Cruise | Romance | 9781311318428 | $3.99 |
11 | The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) | Hal Elrod | Self-Help | 9780979019760 | $9.97 |
12 | Life on the Ramona Coaster | Ramona Singer | Biography | 9781618688750 | $9.99 |
13 | Mended | Sydney Landon | Romance | 9781311353504 | $2.99 |
14 | Mud and Gold | Shayne Parkinson | Fiction | 9781452303802 | $2.99 |
15 | The White Chapel | Marilyn Cruise | Romance | 9781311230973 | $2.99 |
16 | Not You It's Me | Julie Johnson | Romance | 9780991311392 | $4.99 |
17 | Beautiful Redemption | Jamie McGuire | Romance | 9781310863929 | $5.99 |
18 | Settling the Account | Shayne Parkinson | Fiction | 9781452303840 | $2.99 |
19 | All For This | Lexi Ryan | Romance | 9781940832951 | $3.99 |
20 | Sabotage | Dale Wiley | Thriller | 9781310917455 | $1.99 |
21 | Forever We Fall | Chloe Walsh | Romance | 9781311620477 | $2.99 |
22 | The Paper Swan | Leylah Attar | Romance | 9780993752797 | $3.99 |
23 | Fall On Me | Chloe Walsh | Romance | 9781311674944 | $2.99 |
24 | Fall To You | Lexi Ryan | Romance | 9781940832944 | $3.99 |
25 | Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages | Natasha Preston | Romance | 9781311298089 | $2.99 |
Based on gross sales for the month of August.