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Grey leads the iBooks Bestsellers list this week again.

Apple has released the list of Bestselling iBooks from the week of 7/6/15.

We have the entire list for you after the jump.

iBooks US Bestseller List – Paid Books
Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher

iBooks U.S. Bestseller List – Paid Books 7/1/15

1. Grey by E L James – 9781101946350 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 2. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins – 9780698185395 – (Penguin Publishing Group) 3. Paper Towns by John Green – 9781101010938 – (Penguin Young Readers Group) 4. The English Spy by Daniel Silva – 9780062320155 – (Harper) 5. Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison – 9780062372123 – (Dey Street Books) 6. The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand – 9780316334501 – (Little, Brown and Company) 7. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll – 9781476789651 – (Simon & Schuster) 8. The Martian by Andy Weir – 9780804139038 – (Crown/Archetype) 9. Truth or Die by Howard Roughan & James Patterson – 9780316408738 – (Little, Brown and Company) 10. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr – 9781476746609 – (Scribner) 11. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn – 9780307459923 – (Crown/Archetype) 12. The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor – 9780698190856 – (Penguin Publishing Group) 13. Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts – 9781101621219 – (Penguin Publishing Group) 14. Fifty Shades Darker by E L James – 9781612130590 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 15. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah – 9781466850606 – (St. Martin’s Press) 16. Fifty Shades Freed by E L James – 9781612130613 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 17. The Melody Lingers On by Mary Higgins Clark – 9781476749136 – (Simon & Schuster) 18. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume – 9781101875056 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 19. The President’s Shadow by Brad Meltzer – 9780446553957 – (Grand Central Publishing) 20. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James – 9781612130293 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

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Grey, E.L. James‘ latest book in the Fifty Shades series, which is told from the point of view of Christian Grey, hit book stores last week and it has already sold 1.1 million copies across all formats.

Publisher’s Weekly has the scoop:

Now, after having initially said it would be going back to press twice on the title, Vintage has confirmed it is planning third, fourth and fifth printings of Grey. The publisher said it is “working with multiple plants” on the reprint job which, once completed, will bring the in-print total for the book to 2.1 million copies.

James revealed the news about the book via an Instagram post earlier this month. Since then presale orders have been going strong. Amazon revealed that the book was the top selling presale Kindle title of the year so far.

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Not so surprisingly, E.L. James’ new novel Grey and Harper Lee’s highly anticipated novel Go Set a Watchman are gearing up to be the blockbuster books of the summer.

An Amazon spokesperson revealed to GalleyCat that, “So far this year, Grey by E.L. James is the #1 Kindle pre-order of 2015, while Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is the #1 Print pre-order of 2015.”

Earlier this month, we reported that Grey was the bestselling book on Amazon.com. In addition, HarperCollins revealed that Go Set a Watchman was its bestselling preorder title ever.

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Grey, E.L. James‘ upcoming book in the 50 Shades of Grey series, will only cover Christian’s point of view for the first book, the author revealed on Twitter.

After a fan asked James if the new book would cover Christian’s point of view in all three books, E.L. James said that Grey would only show the first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, through Christian’s viewpoint.

James did not say if she would be writing Grey’s point of view from other books in the series.

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Bestselling author E.L. James revealed the latest book in her 50 Shades of Grey series this week, and the title Grey, has already shot up to No. 1 on Amazon.

The book, which comes out on June 18th, leads in all book sales on Amazon and also is the bestselling book on the Kindle bestsellers list. The title is also No. 1 in Romantic, Contemporary Women and Women’s Fiction.

The new book will tells the sordid tale from Christian Grey’s point of view. The author revealed the news on Instagram ear lie this week. \"Hello all. For those of you who have asked, Christian’s POV of #FSOG is published on 18th June for his birthday. It’s called GREY… I hope you enjoy it.#FiftyShades #Grey,\" she wrote.

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June 2 2015 – London – On social media late last night bestselling author E L James announced that she will shortly release a new version of her worldwide bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey — this time written from Christian Grey’s point of view. The new book, titled Grey, will be published on June 18th –a […]

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Bestselling author E.L. James revealed the latest book in the 50 Shades of Grey series this morning in an Instagram post. The book just went on presale on Amazon. The book is available on June 18th.

The new book called Grey, will tell the story from Christian Grey’s point of view. Here is more about the book from the Amazon description:

Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty—until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him—past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian’s cold, wounded heart.

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Yay, I got to hang out with some of my favourite illustrators today! Here's Chris Wormell and Mini Grey. Chris does some of the best linocuts I've seen, and Mini comes up with the most wonderful textures and beautifully wonky perspectives when she draws objects, besides telling great stories.



I've just recently been able to meet the very talented Hannah Shaw, who showed the conference's group of teachers in training some of the cool Photoshop tricks she uses in her books. (Here's me with Morris the Mankiest Monster and Hannah with Erroll the Squirrel... closeup of the Erroll finger puppet.)



I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to drawing well, but my notes kind of give a feel for what was going on. Although I didn't take many while Chris was talking, I was too enviously gazing on his studio photos of all his fabulous printmaking equipment. I loved seeing their sketchbooks, that was a real highlight.




I showed off work from my Morris book and comics, and got the teachers-to-be excited about all the amazing creative energy coming out of the UK comics community, and the potential for their students to tap into it by making their own comics. Then I did a bit of a plug for the upcoming DFC Library and led them in some character design with a story-starter. (You can get all the printouts I gave them if you click on the top banner of the Kids at Random House website, or the direct PDF link here.)



Thanks to everyone that made this happen! Here's Hannah with our Kingston University contact and organiser Liz Broad (with yummy mince pies!) and our fabulous Random House publicity team members, Andrea MacDonald and Kelly Tapper. And not in the picture, but the person who brought the whole conference together, Nikki Gamble of Write Away.



Hey, thanks, Lydia Calman-Grimsdale, for blogging about my comics workshop over on your JAPS school blog, yay!

If you're in southwest London, come along tomorrow to the great indie bookshop that is The Golden Treasury and get your Christmas copies of Morris the Mankiest Monster and colour monsters with me! I'll be there from 3pm and the nearest tube station is Southfields.

And just one more totally unrelated thing, I got a big kick out of The Onion's video for the Annual Take Your Daughter to War Day. Go have a look, heh heh.

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 ****Inspired by Leonardo's Notebooks, author Grey creates a portrait of the famous painter and inventor as imaginitively seen through the eyes of his faithful young servant Giacomo. Much of the plot concerns the completion of the fresco, th

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Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson by Sue Stauffacher, illustrated by Greg Couch. Knopf Books for Young Readers (a Random House imprint). $16.99.

I’m not ashamed to say it. Say the name “Althea Gibson” to me a month ago and you’d have met a blank stare. Say it to me now, however, and you may suffer the indignity of finding me thrusting Sue Stauffacher’s newest picture book, “Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson,” into your arms while screaming into your ears its high points. This might be so bad either if the book only had a high-point here or there, but the fact of the matter is that “Althea Gibson” is ALL high points. It’s a rip-roaring, snorting, fast and frenzied, well-researched, reiterated, illustrated, formulated bit of picture book biography magnificence. With the author of the “Donuthead” books on the one hand and soon-to-be-recognized-for-his-magnificence artist Greg Couch filling in the necessary art, “Althea Gibson” has everything you could possibly want going for it. It’s fun. It’s funny. It’s smart and interesting, and has a flawed heroine you can’t help but want to know more about. If your young child is looking for a biography of a woman and you don’t know where to turn, I can’t think of a better book available to you. There’s something about Althea.

Ask anyone. Ask her mama her daddy her teacher or the cop down the street that busted her for petty theft. They’ll all tell you the same: That Althea Gibson is nothing but trouble. More comfortable tearing up the playground in the 1930s than sitting at a desk in school, Althea has a reputation for recklessness. None of that is enough to scare off play leader Buddy Walker, however. When he sees Althea play sports, he can only see raw talent and untapped potential. With his guidance and the help of the Sugar Hill’s ritzy tennis court “The Cosmopolitan”, Althea is given the chance to improve her style. Problem is, she has a hard time with being polite, following the rules, and not punching out her fellow players’ lights. It takes time and patience and self-control to make Althea the best she can possibly be, but by 1957 she becomes the first African-American to win at Wimbledon. And though she could hog all the credit for herself, Ms. Gibson gives full credit to that amazing Buddy Walker who had the smarts to become her mentor.

It’s always more interesting to read about a flawed hero. Perfect people do not a fascinating story make. Maybe that’s why the trend in children’s biographies lately has been to tell the tale of those men and women who weren’t made of solid gold from birth onwards. Between Kathleen Krull’s, “Isaac Newton”, Laura Amy Schlitz’s, “The Hero Schliemann,” and now Stauffacher’s, “Nothing but Trouble,” biographies for kids are getting better and better with every coming year. The nice thing about Althea is that for all her pouts and ill-manners, she's shown here to be someone who could conquer the world if she just applied a little self-control. As Buddy tells her at one point, “You’ve got to decide, Althea. Are you going to play your game, or are you going to let the game play you? When I go to the jazz club, I play like a tiger, but I wear a tuxedo.” Stauffacher draws much of her dialogue out of Althea’s biographies “I Always Wanted to Be Somebody” and “So Much to Life For.” Even without such lines, however, the author knows how to put a good story together. This plot is carefully crafted. From the timeline in the back (written on tennis balls, no less) to the great opening line, (“Althea Gibson was the tallest, wildest tomboy in the history of Harlem”) to the thin slices of her life, Stauffacher does a stand up job. As Althea’s biographer she prefers to concentrate on the role of Buddy Walker, even mentioning in her Author’s Note that “Though this is Althea’s story it is also Buddy Walker’s story.” The result is that this tale comes off as a tribute to mentors everywhere. To those people that see potential in certain kids and do what they can to bring such potential to light. And that is the nature of an entirely different kind of hero.

Flying just below the radar is illustrator Greg Couch. Ms. Stauffacher may have the wherewithal, wit, and smarts to think to bring Althea’s life to the page, but it is Mr. Couch’s illustrations that truly deserve attention here. Couch has taken a story that could have been accompanied by staid, simple drawings and instead imbued them with a kind of electricity. Althea doesn’t just leap off the page here. She crackles and snaps with an energy you don’t usually encounter on your average picture book bio. Couch has chosen to clothe Althea in a hyperactive rainbow that zigs and zags with the girl’s every movement and leap. Parents and teachers presenting this book to kids can ask them what they think this rainbow really means. And hopefully they’ll notice that when Buddy plays the saxophone (as he did in his own jazz band) the same rainbow colors come out of the instrument. Plus the fact that these rainbows are the sole spot of color against a sepia-tinged background of old photos and scenes from the 30s, 40s and 50s is a nice touch as well. And when, at last, you see Althea win her Wimbledon, she is surrounded at her acceptance speech by a rainbow that has aged and changed from pure primary colors to subtler hues. I also appreciate that there is nothing anachronistic going on in this book. Every picture feels like it has stepped out of history.

A co-worker of mine felt somewhat disappointed that the book ends as suddenly as it does. One minute Althea is learning the benefits of playing by the rules (while maintaining her fire) and the next she’s won Wimbledon and the story's over. I think this is less a flaw of this specific book than of the picture book biography format in general. You can’t linger on a year here or there, however much you might want to. And honestly, this is a book worth discovering. Stauffacher and Couch have found something to say about Althea that hasn’t yet been said in the realm of children’s literature and their passion in bringing Althea’s passion to life is worth taking note of. So stand back now. I’m going to say something and I’m going to say it loud. This book not only pairs well with “Wilma Unlimited” by Kathleen Krull, it may have supplanted it in my brain as my new favorite picture book sports biography. A must read pick.

On shelves August 14th.

First Lines: “Althea Gibson was the tallest, wildest tomboy in the history of Harlem.”

Extra: An artist in the professional sense, Mr. Couch has more than a few paintings to his name. So we’re just going to present, without comment, his Giving Trees. It appeared in the “experimental poetry” journal Sidereality.

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