The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of August 9, 2025

Hardcover Fiction: August 9, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast WeekWeeks on List
1Not Quite Dead YetHolly JacksonDoubleday Canada$37.0012
2The DealElle KennedyBloom Books$47.99–1
3The River Is WaitingWally LambMarysue Rucci Books$39.9948
4Wrath of the DragonsOlivia Rose DarlingDelacorte Press$39.99–1
5Never FlinchStephen KingScribner$43.00511
6Onyx StormRebecca YarrosRed Tower Books$39.9987
7The Fallen and the Kiss of DuskCarissa BroadbentBramble$41.99–1
8Arcana AcademyElise KovaDel Ray$44.0022
9The Emperor of GladnessOcean VuongPenguin Press$39.99–1
10The Hamptons LawyerJames Patterson; Mike LupicaLittle Brown & Company$39.0032

Hardcover Non-Fiction: August 9, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1The Let Them TheoryMel RobbinsHay House$39.991
2GwynethAmy OdellGallery Books$39.99–
3The Anxious GenerationJonathan HaidtPenguin Press$39.992
4One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El AkkadMcClelland & Stewart$36.004
5The Idaho FourJames Patterson; Vicky WardLittle Brown & Company$41.003
6The ServiceberryRobin Wall Kimmerer; John BurgoyneScribner$25.006
7Everything Is TuberculosisJohn GreenPenguin Young Readers $38.008
8Lessons from Cats for Surviving FascismStewart ReynoldsGrand Central Publishing$17.00–
9We Can Do Hard ThingsGlennon Doyle; Abby Wambach; Amanda DoyleThe Dial Press$45.007
10How Countries Go BrokeRay DalioAvid Reader Press$47.009

Paperback Fiction: August 9, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1She Didn’t See It ComingShari LapenaDoubleday Canada$26.95–
2AtmosphereTaylor Jenkins ReidDoubleday Canada$26.994
3The Woman in Suite 11Ruth WareSimon & Schuster$26.993
4One Golden SummerCarley FortuneViking$26.951
5Don’t Let Him InLisa JewellAtria Books$26.995
6My FriendsFredrik BackmanSimon & Schuster$26.997
7Every Summer AfterCarley FortuneViking$24.959
8Project Hail MaryAndy WeirBallantine Books$28.99–
9Broken CountryClare Leslie HallSimon & Schuster$26.99–
10An Inside Job IntlDaniel SilvaHarper$25.998

Canadian Fiction: August 9, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1She Didn’t See It ComingShari LapenaDoubleday Canada$26.95–
2One Golden SummerCarley FortuneViking$26.951
3Every Summer AfterCarley FortuneViking$24.952
4The DealElle KennedyBloom Books$47.99–
5The Deepest FakeDaniel KallaSimon & Schuster$25.99–
6This Summer Will Be DifferentCarley FortuneViking$24.956
7Finding FloraElinor FlorenceSimon & Schuster$24.993
8Meet Me at the LakeCarley FortuneViking$24.955
9We Used to Live HereMarcus KliewerAtria/Emily Bestler Books$25.99–
10A Most Puzzling MurderBianca MaraisMIRA$25.994

Canadian Non-Fiction: August 9, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1Reclaiming Our StudentsHannah Beach; Tamara Neufeld StrijackPage Two Books$21.00–
2ValuesMark CarneySignal$28.001
3One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El AkkadMcClelland & Stewart$36.002
4Anatomy of a Cover-UpPaul PalangoRandom House Canada$27.953
5For the Love of a SonScott OakeSimon & Schuster$13.99–
6Children Like UsBrittany PennerDoubleday Canada$26.99–
7Lessons from Cats for Surviving FascismStewart ReynoldsGrand Central Publishing$26.006
8When the Body Says NoGabor MatéVintage Canada$17.004
9The Myth of NormalGabor Maté; Daniel MatéKnopf Canada$24.005
10Scattered MindsGabor MatéVintage Canada$26.958

Juvenile: August 9, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1Glorious RivalsJennifer Lynn BarnesLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers$27.99–
2A Theory of DreamingAva ReidHarper Collins$31.00–
3Cozy CornerCoco WyoRandom House Books for Young Readers$12.501
4T Is for TerryDenise Dias; Noémie Gionet LandryScholastic Canada$18.99–
5Cozy CutiesCoco WyoRandom House Books for Young Readers$12.502
6Sunrise on the ReapingSuzanne CollinsScholastic Press$36.993
7Dragon Masters #29: Magic of the Wizard DragonTracey West; Graham HowellsScholastic$8.99–
8Binding 13Chloe WalshBloom Books$22.50–
9Emmie and Friends #9: Entirely EmmieTerri LibensonHarper Collins Publishers$19.99–
10Immortal ConsequencesI.V. MarieDelacorte Press$29.99–

Self-Improvement: August 9, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1The Let Them TheoryMel RobbinsHay House$39.991
2The Mountain Is YouBrianna WiestThought Catalog Books$22.992
3The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene; Joost ElffersPenguin Books$35.003
4101 Essays That Will Change the Way You ThinkBrianna WiestThought Catalog Books$20.994
5Think and Grow RichNapoleon HillTarcherPerigee$15.005
6The Courage to Be DislikedIchiro Kishimi; Fumitake KogaSimon & Schuster$25.00–
7We Can Do Hard ThingsGlennon Doyle; Abby Wambach; Amanda DoyleThe Dial Press$45.006
8What to Expect When You’re ExpectingHeidi MurkoffWorkman Publishing$23.99–
9The Four AgreementsDon Miguel Ruiz; Janet MillsTarcher$17.509
10The Life That’s WaitingBrianna WiestThought Catalog Books$25.997

Biography: August 9, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList Price
1GwynethAmy OdellGallery Books$39.99
2One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El AkkadMcClelland & Stewart$36.00
3For the Love of a SonScott OakeSimon & Schuster$26.99
4Children Like UsBrittany PennerDoubleday Canada$26.00
5NightElie Wiesel; Marion WieselHill & Wang$17.00
6Tuesdays with MorrieMitch AlbomBroadway Books$23.00
7A Spy in the FamilyPaul Henderson; David GardnerHarper Collins Canada$24.99
8GreenlightsMatthew McConaugheyCrown$27.99
9Born a CrimeTrevor NoahAnchor Canada$23.00
10Free RideNoraly SchoenmakerAtria Books$39.99

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