Apple has released a list of the best-selling paid fictionebook titles in iBookstore in 2014. Other sellers will be revealing their own lists shortly.
Fiction (paid):
- The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (Children & Teens)
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Mysteries & Thrillers)
- Insurgent, Veronica Roth (Children & Teens)
- Allegiant, Veronica Roth (Children & Teens)
- Divergent, Veronica Roth (Children & Teens)
- The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (Fiction & Literature)
- The Target, David Baldacci (Mysteries & Thrillers)
- The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd (Fiction & Literature)
- The Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty (Fiction & Literature)
- Fifty Shades of Grey, E L James (Romance)
- The A Song of Ice and Fire Series, George R. R. Martin (Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
- If I Stay, Gayle Forman (Children & Teens)
- Personal, Lee Child (Mysteries & Thrillers)
- Sycamore Row, John Grisham (Mysteries & Thrillers)
- Fifty Shades Darker, E L James (Romance)
- Unlucky 13, Maxine Paetro,James Patterson (Mysteries & Thrillers)
- The Silkworm, Robert Galbraith (Mysteries & Thrillers)
- The Maze Runner, James Dashner (Children & Teens)
- The Heist, Daniel Silva (Mysteries & Thrillers)
- Fifty Shades Freed, E L James (Romance)
- Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty (Fiction & Literature)
- Missing You, Harlan Coben (Fiction & Literature)
- Act of War, Brad Thor (Fiction & Literature)
- Field of Prey, John Sandford (Mysteries & Thrillers)
- Top Secret Twenty-One, Janet Evanovich (Mysteries & Thrillers)
In terms of genres, it's no contest: mysteries and thrillers win handily. Romance is in second place. In children's and teen's, it's dystopian adventure--although I've read that this may have run its course.