Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb hit #1 on the Apple Books store bestseller list last week, followed by Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing at #2 and the new book by former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Call Sign, written with Bing West, at #3. Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch returned to the list at #17, riding in on some publicity from a new adaptation. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale hit #6 in advance of the release of its sequel, The Testaments.

Apple Books US Bestseller List - 09/08/19 - Paid Books
Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher

1. Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb - 9781250207180 - (St. Martin's Publishing Group)
2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - 9780735219113 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
3. Call Sign Chaos by Bing West and Jim Mattis - 9780812996845 - (Random House Publishing Group)
4. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott - 9780525656166 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
5. The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz - 9780451494351 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 9780547345666 - (HMH Books)
7. Dark Illusion by Christine Feehan - 9781984803474 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
8. The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar - 9781488035067 - (MIRA Books)
9. Educated by Tara Westover - 9780399590511 - (Random House Publishing Group)
10. No Second Chance by Harlan Coben - 9781101133996 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
11. Old Bones by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - 9781538747216 - (Grand Central Publishing)
12. A Better Man by Louise Penny - 9781466873711 - (St. Martin's Publishing Group)
13. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini - 9781101626276 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
14. Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer - 9781250200778 - (St. Martin's Publishing Group)
15. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 9780316248679 - (Little, Brown and Company)
16. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - 9781588366887 - (Random House Publishing Group)
17. The Inn by Candice Fox & James Patterson - 9780316528429 - (Little, Brown and Company)
18. World History by Dahia Ibo Shabaka, Larry S. Kreiger, Linda Black, Phillip C. Naylor & Roger B. Beck - 9780544025387 - (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
19. One Good Deed by David Baldacci - 9781538750551 - (Grand Central Publishing)
20. The Quiet Game by Greg Iles - 9781101146262 - (Penguin Publishing Group)