eBook sales have shot through the roof. Who'd ever have imagined that reading books electronically would become so popular? Unlike print books, ebooks can be be bought "there add then", no more waiting around for the postman to bring your next precious reading material. Simply log on and click the buy the ebook of your choice, and it will download directly to your e-reader or computer as quickly as your internet provider allows.
Whether you are using a Kindle or some other form of electronic reader, your ebook is there for you to read and enjoy whenever you want.
While all the biggest best sellers in the world are available on ebook, many new authors have found the ebook format to be perfect to self-publish and become known, without being at the whim of publishing houses, who, let's face it, have made a few mistakes in the past, by not publishing what later became the most popular books ever.
Here is a current list of the top 10 best selling ebooks on the market today.
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A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
#1 best selling ebook
A Stolen Life is the title of the memoirs of Jaycee Dugard who you may have read about on the news. Jaycee was the little girl kidnapped and detained against her will for an incredible 18 years, during which time she became a sex slave for perverted Phillip Garrido and his equally perverted wife.
Just 11 years old at the time of her abduction, read how Jaycee survived by remembering the good times with her Mom and you can't help but admire the depth of inner strength that this girl/young woman showed and continues to show today.
Released from her urban Hell in 2009 (she was detained a back garden shed for all those years and neighbors noticed nothing), she now has a new life to rebuild with her two daughters (born from her forced sexual entrapment to Phillip Garrido).
Parts of the proceeds of this books will be directed to the J A Y C Foundation, set up by Jaycee, so offer support to victims of abduction.
A Dance With Dragons by George R R Martin
#2 best selling ebook
A Dance With Dragons is the 5th book in the series, A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R R Martin.
Set in an "other world", A Song of Ice and Fire is an epic classic up there with J R Tolkein's "Lord of The Rings", and follows the fortunes and wars of the Seven Kingdoms. A mix of the historical with kings and queens and fights to the death amid old castle walls with the magical and unreal, A Song of Fire and Ice has captured the public imagination.
The complete series up to date includes books 1 to 5. The full series is planned to stretch to seven books, but two are as yet unwritten.
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
#3 best selling ebook
Set in Mississippi in the 1960s, The Help is a wonderfully told story about a young white women who decides to write a book about the treatment meted out to the black women who were often hired as Home Helps to rich white women.
At a time just before the Civil Rights Movement came into being, Kathryn Stockett has brought this book alive with real life characters and a factual historical setting. Gripping from page 1, The Help is a marvellous book that will keep you turning the pages (theoretically of course, seeing this is the ebook version), wanting to know what happens next.
Now being turned into a major Hollywood movie, read the book now.
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
#4 best selling ebook
Aimed primarily at teenagers/young adults, The Hunger Games is the first in a trilogy of books about a futuristic America (now re-named Panem) in which televised reality shows have taken a step too far.
Now two young teenagers from each of the 12 regions of Panem must fight to the death in front of the whole nation who by Law must watch the program.
Our heroine is 16 year old Katness Everdeen is steps in to take the place of her younger sister who was initially chosen to take part in the Hunger Games.
Not to be missed. Might be aimed at teenagers, but this trilogy suits all ages. Excellently written by Suzanne Collins.
Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo
#5 best selling ebook
Heaven is for Real is the amazing and heart-warming story of a little boy who "died" on the operating table for a short period of time.
Told by his father, Todd Burpo, a Nebraska pastor, it describes how young Colton amazed his family by telling them about his experiences while dead, from floating over the operating table to meeting God In Heaven.
He described meeting his grandfather, who had died years before Colton was even born, and describing him in sufficient details for his parents to be almost awestruck, because this little boy could not have known those things.
He also told his parents about meeting his sister, who had been stillborn and of whom Colton had known nothing.
Heaven is for real is inspirational and comforting to those who have recently lost loved ones, as it gives hope to an eternal meeting with those we have lost.
Go The F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
#6 best selling ebook
Go The F**k To Sleep is a light-hearted look at something every parent faces or must have faced at some point in their lives. What to do when your child refuses to go to sleep.
Some children devise some pretty incredible excuses as to why they should stay up, and this book explores them in such a way that will have you grinning from ear to ear.
Never again will bedtimes be a battleground, as you will be laughing thinking about the scenarios in this excellent book by Adam Mansbach.
A fun read - but only for parents. Guaranteed not to be understood by parents to be, as you really have to have been there and experienced this to relate closely to Go The Fk to Sleep.
The Big 5-OH! by Sandra D Bricker
#7 best selling ebook
The Big 5-OH! is a laugh out loud summer fun read that will hook you in from page 1. A first novel by Sandra D Bricker, she introduces us to Olivia Wallace, who dreads her fast approaching 50th birthday.
All her life, as far back as she can remember, she has suffered calamities on her birthday. On her 16th, she had her first broken heart, on her 21st she was involved in a car accident, and so on down the line. Each year was some new disaster and very few of her birthdays had passed without some major bad event.
On her 48th birthday she had been told be had ovarian cancer, and now almost 2 years later she was cancer-free, after having gone through chemotherapy.
He hair has just grown back, she is starting to feel attractive again, but what great calamity awaits her?
A superb book and an excellent first novel. No doubt we will be hearing more from Sandra D Bicker.
Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
#8 best selling ebook
In this latest Stephanie Plum offering by Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum, New Jersey bounty hunter, finds herself involved in a case involving bodies showing up on a disused building allotment.
But its Stephanie's private life that has shocked readers in this 17th Stephanie Plum novel.
She's had on off relationships with both ranger and Joe over the years, but n this book she sleeps with both men (though at different times). Many readers feel that the character of Stephanie Plum has not grown, and has in fact regressed.
That said, it would seem that Smokin' Seventeen is a significant improvement over Janet Evanovich's last two novels.
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J.Watson
#9 best selling ebook
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J.Watsonhas a deeply disturbing concept that will certainly make you think.
In this book, a middle-aged woman wakes up every day with no recollection of the final 20 odd years of her life.
Thanks to a head injury years before, she suffers from a weird type of memory loss that kicks in every time she goes to sleep.
So she wakes up next to her husband, having no idea who he is, or what she is doing. Even her own facial reflection frightens her as she does not recognise herself, except for the eyes.
She has been keeping a diary, on which she has scrawled "Don't trust Ben". Ben is the name of her husband.
Read on as she tries to find out why she wrote this, and when, with the added handicap of having to start each day afresh with no memory from the day before.
Invariably described as "unputdownable", Before I Go to Sleep will draw you in and keep you gasping for more.
An excellent first novel by author S.J. Watson.
Eyes Wide Open by Andrew Gross
#10 best selling ebook
Eyes Wide Open is a thriller that is chock full of suspense and cliff-hangers that will draw you in and keep to reading right through to its terrifying conclusion.
Andrew Gross, author of three previous best selling books The Blue Zone, Don't Look Twice and The Dark Tide on his own, plus co-author of 5 best selling James Patterson books, does not disappoint with his latest offering, which is a page turner than will draw you in and carry you along.
A son has died. But what he pushed or did he jump? His family battle to find out the answers.
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