The end of the summer and the beginning of the school year finds a mixed bag of e-books hitting the Apple iBooks store's bestseller list. On top is Kendall Ryan's self-published romance The Soul Mate, followed by Lisa Wingate's Before We Were Yours and Joseph S. Levine and Kenneth R. Miller's textbook Biology. Two more textbooks hit the list, as did George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones as the penultimate season of its HBO adaptation comes to a close.

iBooks US Bestseller List - 08/20/17 - Paid Books
Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher

1. The Soul Mate by Kendall Ryan - No ISBN Available - (Kendall Ryan)
2. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate - 9780425284698 - (Random House Publishing Group)
3. Biology by Joseph S. Levine, Ph.D., Ph.D. & Kenneth R. Miller - 9780133226713 - (Pearson Education, Inc.)
4. The Late Show by Michael Connelly - 9780316225977 - (Little, Brown and Company)
5. Seeing Red by Sandra Brown - 9781455572076 - (Grand Central Publishing)
6. World History by Dahia Ibo Shabaka, Larry S. Kreiger, Linda Black, Phillip C. Naylor & Roger B. Beck - 9780544025387 - (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
7. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - 9780399180842 - (Random House Publishing Group)
8. The Mark of the Assassin by Daniel Silva - 9781440627880 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
9. The Store by James Patterson - 9780316395540 - (Little, Brown and Company)
10. Camino Island by John Grisham - 9780385543057 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
11. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls - 9781416550600 - (Scribner)
12. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter - 9780062430267 - (William Morrow)
13. House of Spies by Daniel Silva - 9780062354365 - (Harper)
14. Chemistry by Antony Wilbraham, Dennis Staley, Edward Waterman & Michael Matta - 9780133226621 - (Pearson Education, Inc.)
15. I'll Be Seeing You by Mary Higgins Clark - 9780743206204 - (Simon & Schuster)
16. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware - 9781501156199 - (GalleryScout Press)
17. The Americans by Gerald A. Danzer, J. Jorge Klor De Alva, Larry S. Krieger, Louis E. Wilson & Nancy Woloch - 9780544025486 - (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
18. The Boy in the Suitcase by Agnete Friis & Lene Kaaberbøl - 9781569479827 - (Soho Press)
19. Origin by Dan Brown - 9780385542692 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
20. The Scotch King by Penelope Sky - 9781386266549 - (Self)