Initials ruled the iBooks Bestsellers list this past week, with J.P Delaney's The Girl Before and J.D. Robb's Echoes In Death nabbing the top two slots respectively. E.L. James netted five slots total on the list, including two in the top five, riding on the popularity of the film adaptation of her Fifty Shades Darker. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, surging on the recent interest in dystopian novels, is #5.

iBooks US Bestseller List - Paid Books
Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher

1. The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney - 9780425285053 - (Random House Publishing Group)
2. Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb - 9781250123145 - (St. Martin's Press)
3. Fifty Shades Darker by E L James - 9781612130590 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
4. Fifty Shades Freed by E L James - 9781612130613 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
5. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 9780547345666 - (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
6. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James - 9781612130293 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
7. Buttons & Hate by Penelope Sky - 9781536504392 - (Self)
8. Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner - 9780698411432 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
9. Just Friends by Billy Taylor - 9781530511518 - (Billy Taylor)
10. Never Never by Candice Fox & James Patterson - 9780316434720 - (Little, Brown and Company)
11. The Shack by William P. Young - 9780964729292 - (Windblown Media)
12. The Whistler by John Grisham - 9780385541206 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
13. The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle - 9781460396353 - (MIRA)
14. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance - 9780062300560 - (Harper)
15. King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard - 9780062310712 - (HarperTeen)
16. Fifty Shades Trilogy Bundle by E L James - 9780345803573 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
17. Like A Memory by Abbi Glines - 9780988301344 - (Abbi Glines)
18. Auschwitz by Miklos Nyiszli, Richard Seaver & Tibère Kremer - 9781628720266 - (Arcade Publishing)
19. Grey by E L James - 9781101946350 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
20. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - 9780698138636 - (Penguin Publishing Group)