Daniel Silva's The Black Widow, the sixteenth book in his Gabriel Allon series of thrillers, took the top spot on the iBooks bestseller list for the week ended July 17. Coming in second was First Comes Love, the most recent romance by Emily Giffin. Billy Taylor's self-published romance Just Friends took the third slot, and Jojo Moyes's Me Before You hung on at #5.

iBooks US Bestseller List - Paid Books

Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher

1. The Black Widow by Daniel Silva - 9780062320247 - (Harper)
2. First Comes Love by Emily Giffin - 9780345546937 - (Random House Publishing Group)
3. Just Friends by Billy Taylor - 9781530511518 - (Billy Taylor)
4. The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith H. Beer & Susan Dworkin - 9780062190048 - (William Morrow)
5. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - 9781101606377 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
6. Foreign Agent by Brad Thor - 9781476789378 - (AtriaEmily Bestler Books)
7. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - 9780698185395 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
8. The Games by James Patterson - 9780316290197 - (Little, Brown and Company)
9. The Girls by Emma Cline - 9780812998610 - (Random House Publishing Group)
10. Hitched, Volume 1 by Kendall Ryan - No ISBN Available - (Kendall Ryan)
11. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley - 9781455561803 - (Grand Central Publishing)
12. After You by Jojo Moyes - 9780698152045 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
13. Magic by Danielle Steel - 9781101885574 - (Random House Publishing Group)
14. Craving by Helen Hardt - 9781943893171 - (Waterhouse Press)
15. Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand - 9780316375153 - (Little, Brown and Company)
16. Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo - 9781466867277 - (St. Martin's Press)
17. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon - 9780440335153 - (Random House Publishing Group)
18. Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne - 9781455568888 - (Center Street)
19. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - 9781466850606 - (St. Martin's Press)
20. Hitched, Volume 2 by Kendall Ryan - No ISBN Available - (Kendall Ryan)