One week after Stephen King's The Institute and Margaret Atwood's The Testaments were released, King has beaten Atwood to the top of the bestseller list on the Apple Books store. Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing stays in the top five, at #3, with Malcolm Gladwell's latest, Talking to Strangers, at #4. Edward Snowden's memoir, Permanent Record, is at #9.

Apple Books US Bestseller List - 09/22/19 - Paid Books
Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher

1. The Institute by Stephen King - 9781982110598 - (Scribner)
2. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood - 9780385543798 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
3. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - 9780735219113 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
4. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell - 9780316535625 - (Little, Brown and Company)
5. Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson - 9780525522515 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
6. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - 9781101442197 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
7. Killer Instinct by Howard Roughan and James Patterson - 9780316422345 - (Little, Brown and Company)
8. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden - 9781250237248 - (Henry Holt and Co.)
9. Met Her Match by Jude Deveraux - 9781488088605 - (MIRA Books)
10. Flame by Chelle Bliss - No ISBN Available - (Bliss Ink)
11. Vendetta in Death by J. D. Robb - 9781250207180 - (St. Martin's Publishing Group)
12. Ghosted by Rosie Walsh - 9780525522782 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
13. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 9780316248679 - (Little, Brown and Company)
14. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott - 9780525656166 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
15. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 9780547345666 - (HMH Books)
16. After the Funeral by Agatha Christie - 9780061739910 - (William Morrow Paperbacks)
17. The Titanic Secret by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul - 9780735217270 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
18. Educated by Tara Westover - 9780399590511 - (Random House Publishing Group)
19. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger - 9781476749310 - (Atria Books)
20. The Haunting of Hill House by Laura Miller & Shirley Jackson - 9781101530641 - (Penguin Publishing Group)