John Grisham’s Gray Mountain hits the top of the Ebook Best-Seller List this week, swapping places with Gone Girl, the Gillian Flynn novel that held strong at No 1. for the past six weeks.
Two other Gillian Flynn titles remain within the top 25, though: Dark Places and Sharp Objects. And it’s all good news anyway for Penguin Random House, which publishes both Grisham and Flynn.
Self-published ebooks hold strong this week, three of them by Deborah Bladon–the same number of titles the author had on last week’s list–with Penelope Ward’s hit Stepbrother Dearest remaining inside the top ten.
The average price of a best-selling ebook takes a sharp turn upward after a recent dive, from $6.26 to $7.36.
Top 25 Ebook Best-Sellers
Week Ending 11/1/14
| Rank* | Title | Author | Publisher | Price** | Change |
| 1 (2) | Gray Mountain | John Grisham | Penguin Random House | $ 11.99 | +1 |
| 2 (1) | Gone Girl: A Novel | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House | $ 7.99 | -1 |
| 3 (9) | Blood Magick (Cousins O’Dwyer Trilogy Book 3) | Nora Roberts | Penguin Random House | $ 6.99 | +6 |
| 4 (3) | Leaving Time: A Novel | Jodi Picoult | Penguin Random House | $ 10.99 | -1 |
| 5 (7) | Deadline (Virgil Flowers Book  | John Sandford | Penguin Random House | $ 10.99 | +2 |
| 6 (5) | Burn (Michael Bennett Book 7) | Jamse Patterson; Michael Ledwidge | Hachette | $ 9.99 | -1 |
| 7 (4) | Stepbrother Dearest | Penelope Ward | Self-published | $ 3.99 | -3 |
| 8 (17) | All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel | Anthony Doerr | Simon & Schuster | $ 6.50 | +9 |
| 9 (8) | Dark Places: A Novel | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | -1 |
| 10 (11) | Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General | Bill O’Reilly; Martin Dugard | Macmillan | $ 11.04 | +1 |
| 11 (6) | The Best of Me | Nicholas Sparks | Hachette | $ 4.99 | -5 |
| 12 (14) | Ruin: Part 1 | Deborah Bladon | Self-published | $ 0.99 | +2 |
| 13 (n/a) | The Hart Family Series Box Set | Ella Fox | Self-published | $ 0.99 | New |
| 14 (15) | Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand | Penguin Random House | $ 7.99 | +1 |
| 15 (10) | The Heroes of Olympus (The Blood of Olympus Book 5) | Rick Riordan | Hachette | $ 9.99 | -5 |
| 16 (n/a) | Yes Please | Amy Poehler | HarperCollins | $ 12.99 | New |
| 17 (16) | Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel | Lee Child | Penguin Random House | $ 10.99 | -1 |
| 18 (13) | Ruin: Part 2 | Deborah Bladon | Self-published | $ 0.99 | -5 |
| 19 (19) | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | Penguin Random House | $ 10.99 | – |
| 20 (24) | Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline | HarperCollins | $ 6.99 | +4 |
| 21 (n/a) | Ruin: Part 3 | Deborah Bladon | Self-published | $ 0.99 | New |
| 22 (12) | Captivated by You (Crossfire Book 4) | Sylvia Day | Penguin Random House | $ 7.99 | – |
| 23 (22) | Outlander: A Novel | Diana Gabaldon | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | -1 |
| 24 (n/a) | The Slow Regard of Silent Things: A Kingkiller Chronicle Novella | Patrick Rothfuss | Penguin Random House | $ 9.78 | New |
| 25 (n/a) | Sharp Objects: A Novel | Gillian Flynn | Random House | $ 6.99 | New |
* Previous week’s list rank in parentheses.
** Price reflects minimum price across all retailers throughout the week. Price may vary between retailers and may change throughout the week.
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