The massive scale of the self-publishing world can easily overwhelm readers, writers and publishing professionals.
To help GalleyCat readers discover self-published authors, we have compiled lists of the top eBooks in three major marketplaces for self-published digital books: Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords. We will update these lists every week, tracking how writers perform inside these booming marketplaces.

Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers
1. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
2. Easy by Tammara Webber
3. Weekends Required by Sydney Landon
4. Whispers from the Ashes by Patricia Hester
5. Not Planning on You by Sydney Landon
6. Big Girls Don’t Cry by Taylor Lee
7. Trial Junkies by Robert Gregory Browne
8. Lord of Vengeance by Lara Adrian
9. Wool Omnibus Edition by Hugh Howey
10. The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted by Andrew E. Kaufman


Barnes & Noble Self-Published eBook Bestsellers
1. Summer Secrets by Barbara Freethy
2. Take Me by Locklyn Marx
3. A Month at the Shore by Antoinette Stockenberg
4. SpellBound Cafe by Nora A Roberts
5.. Awakening by Karice Bolton
6. All She Ever Wanted by Barbara Freethy
7. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
8. Five Days in Summer by Katia Lief
9. Easy by Tammara Webber
10. Season for Love by Marie Force


Smashwords eBook Bestsellers
1. Motorcycle Man by Kristen Ashley
2. The Fifth Man by Randy Ingermanson
3. Wisdom by Amanda Hocking
4. Oxygen by Randy Ingermanson
5. Endless Magic by Rachel Higginson
6. On Demon Wings by Karina Halle
7. Settling the Account by Shayne Parkinson
8. The Wetherby Brides Bundle by Jerrica Knight-Catania
9. Perfect Day by Josh Lanyon
10. Conspiracy by Lindsay Buroker


These three eBook lists were recorded on Monday, June 11, 2012.
For the Amazon list, we found the highest ranked self-published bestsellers in Amazon’s Top 100 Paid Kindle Books list. For the Barnes & Noble list, we highlighted the bestselling PubIt! eBooks from self-published authors. Finally, the Smashwords list was drawn from the bestselling titles in the company’s fiction list.