Amazon announced today that Nora Roberts is the third author to sell more than 1 million Kindle books.

According to an Amazon press release, as of yesterday, Nora Roberts sold 1,170,539 Kindle books under her name and her pseudonym J.D. Robb.

With this accomplishment, Roberts joins the “Kindle Million Club,” a group of authors who have sold more than a million Kindle books. Scandinavian author Stieg Larsson was the first author to sell a million eBooks through the Kindle store, followed by James Patterson.

Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content, had this statement: “Nora Roberts has been a bestseller at Amazon for 15 years so this accomplishment is no surprise. We’re happy to welcome Nora Roberts to the Kindle Million Club, joining Stieg Larsson and James Patterson.”