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Film adaptations certainly help, as does the name-recognition of a popular author with a large fan base. Those are two probable reasons why the entirety of Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy is back on this week’s list, just as the Insurgent movie hits theaters, and James Patterson’s NYPD Red 3 debuts at No. 2.
But neither can quite account for the eight weeks and counting The Girl on the Train, by first-time author Paula Hawkins, has so far spent at No. 1. And the same goes for J. S. Cooper’s self-published Falling for My Best Friend’s Brother, which has held strong for several weeks further down the rankings.
Word of mouth remains one of the most powerful recommendation engines around, and it’s something ebook publishers and distributors are striving to facilitate as best they can among readers in the digital space.
In the meantime, prices continue to swing to and fro, with the average price of a best-seller dropping to $ 5.74 after climbing up to $ 6.99 last week.
| Rank* | Title | Author | Publisher | Price** | Change |
| 1 (1) | The Girl on the Train: A Novel | Paula Hawkins | Penguin Random House | $ 6.49 | — |
| 2 (n/a) | NYPD Red 3 | James Patterson; Marshall Karp | Hachette | $ 9.99 | New |
| 3 (2) | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania | Erik Larson | Penguin Random House | $ 12.99 | -1 |
| 4 (7) | The Longest Ride | Nicholas Sparks | Hachette | $ 5.39 | +3 |
| 5 (3) | Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy Book 3) | E L James | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | -2 |
| 6 (4) | All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel | Anthony Doerr | Simon & Schuster | $ 11.99 | -2 |
| 7 (2) | Gone Girl: A Novel | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House | $ 4.00 | -5 |
| 8 (6) | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | Macmillan | $ 12.99 | -2 |
| 9 (n/a) | Divergent | Veronica Roth | HarperCollins | $ 2.99 | New |
| 10 (16) | Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy Book 2) | Veronica Roth | HarperCollins | $ 3.99 | +6 |
| 11 (8) | A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel | Anne Tyler | Penguin Random House | $ 10.99 | -3 |
| 12 (10) | The Husband’s Secret | Liane Moriarty | Penguin Random House | $ 6.50 | -2 |
| 13 (17) | The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Daniel James Brown | Penguin Random House | $ 2.99 | +4 |
| 14 (12) | American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History | Chris Kyle; Scott McEwen; Jim DeFelice | HarperCollins | $ 4.00 | -2 |
| 15 (9) | Falling for My Best Friend’s Brother | J. S. Cooper | Self-published | $ 3.99 | -6 |
| 16 (11) | Dark Places: A Novel | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House | $ 2.99 | -5 |
| 17 (13) | Still Alice | Lisa Genova | Simon & Schuster | $ 6.99 | -4 |
| 18 (n/a) | Danielle Walker’s Against All Grain: Meals Made Simple | Danielle Walker | Victory Belt | $ 1.99 | New |
| 19 (15) | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | Penguin Random House | $ 9.79 | -4 |
| 20 (n/a) | Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy Book 3) | Veronica Roth | HarperCollins | $ 3.99 | New |
| 21 (n/a) | Silent Scream (Detective Kim Stone Series Book 1) | Angela Marsons | Bookouture | $ 0.99 | New |
| 22 (14) | Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed | Penguin Random House | $ 4.40 | -8 |
| 23 (n/a) | Angels Walking: A Novel | Karen Kingsbury | Simon & Schuster | $ 1.99 | New |
| 24 (22) | Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | -2 |
| 25 (23) | The Silent Girls | Eric Rickstad | HarperCollins | $ 0.99 | -2 |
* 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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