{"id":2508,"date":"2025-07-17T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2508\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:17:07","slug":"toronto-star-bestsellers-for-july-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2508\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Star bestsellers for July 17, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSuite 11\u201d \u2014 No. 2 on the original fiction list \u2014 is a sequel of sorts, with the character Lo Blacklock from the earlier book heading to Switzerland to write a profile of a billionaire. Instead she ends up in \u201ca cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe,\u201d to quote the book blurb.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Lisa Jewell\u2018s \u201cDon\u2019t Let Him In\u201d at No. 3, in which a woman starts dating a friend of her late husband\u2019s who is not at all what he appears to be.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bianca Marais\u2018s \u201cA Most Puzzling Murder\u201d has spent several weeks on the Canadian fiction list. And it is indeed a puzzler, according to HarperCollins, one interspersed with riddles and set in a castle on an island.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of mysteries, this week\u2019s mystery list is a testament to the popularity of Freida McFadden: seven of the 10 books on the list are hers.<\/p>\n<p>1. One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Viking (10)*<\/p>\n<p>2. The Woman in Suite 11, Ruth Ware, Simon &amp; Schuster (1)<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0Don\u2019t Let Him In, Lisa Jewell, Atria (3)<\/p>\n<p>4. Rose in Chains, Julie Soto, Forever (1)<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Doubleday Canada (6)<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0My Friends,\u00a0Fredrik Backman, Simon &amp; Schuster (11)<\/p>\n<p>7. The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, Brigitte Knightley, Ace (1)<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, Viking (10)<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall, Simon &amp; Schuster (15)<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0The Housemaid,\u00a0Freida McFadden, Grand Central (38)<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt, Penguin (54)<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0Anatomy of a Cover-Up, Paul Palango, Random House Canada (5)<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0Everything Is Tuberculosis, John Green (6)<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0The Serviceberry,\u00a0Robin Wall Kimmerer, Scribner (33)<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,\u00a0Omar El Akkad, McClelland &amp; Stewart (19)<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari, Signal (24)<\/p>\n<p>7. 2024, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf, Penguin<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0A Spy in the Family, Paul Henderson, David Gardiner, HarperCollins Canada (4)<\/p>\n<p>9. Braiding Sweetgrass,\u00a0Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed (155)<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0Empire of AI, Karen Hao, Penguin (2)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0This Summer Will Be Different, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0A Most Puzzling Murder, Bianca Marais, Mira<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, Margaret Atwood, McClelland &amp; Stewart<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0Finding Flora, Elinor Florence, Simon &amp; Schuster<\/p>\n<p>7. Wild Love, Elsie Silver, Bloom<\/p>\n<p>8. Killer on the First Page, Ian Ferguson, Will Ferguson, HarperCollins Canada<\/p>\n<p>9. Everyone Here Is Lying, Shari Lapena, Seal<\/p>\n<p>10. Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0Value(s),\u00a0Mark Carney, Signal<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0Anatomy of a Cover-Up, Paul Palango, Random House Canada<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0Outsider, Brett Popplewell, HarperCollins Canada<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,\u00a0Omar El Akkad, McClelland &amp; Stewart<\/p>\n<p>5. True Reconciliation, Jody Wilson-Raybould, McClelland &amp; Stewart<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a012 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random House Canada<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0A History of Canada in Ten Maps, Adam Shoalts, Penguin Canada<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism, Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0Murder, Madness and Mayhem, Mike Browne, HarperCollins Canada<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a052 Ways to Reconcile, David A. Robertson, McClelland &amp; Stewart\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0Sunrise on the Reaping,\u00a0Suzanne Collins, Scholastic<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0Love You Forever, Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw, Firefly<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0Binding 13,\u00a0Chloe Walsh, Bloom<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0Karen\u2019s Ghost (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #11), D.K. Yingst, Ann M. Martin, Graphix<\/p>\n<p>5. Keeping 13, Chloe Walsh, Bloom<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0Fearless,\u00a0Lauren Roberts, Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0Powerless, Lauren Roberts,\u00a0Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n<p>8. The Summer I Turned Pretty, Jenny Han,\u00a0Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n<p>9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle, Penguin Young Readers Group<\/p>\n<p>10. The Cartoonists Club, Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix<\/p>\n<p>1. Do Not Disturb, Freida McFadden, Atria<\/p>\n<p>2. Murder Island, James Patterson, Brian Sitts, Little, Brown<\/p>\n<p>3. The Tenant,\u00a0Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen<\/p>\n<p>4. Never Lie,\u00a0Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen<\/p>\n<p>5. The Housemaid\u2019s Secret,\u00a0Freida McFadden, Quercus<\/p>\n<p>6. The Boyfriend,\u00a0Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen<\/p>\n<p>7. The Housemaid Is Watching,\u00a0Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen<\/p>\n<p>8. In Too Deep, Lee Child, Andrew Child, Dell<\/p>\n<p>9. Alex Cross Must Die, James Patterson, Little, Brown<\/p>\n<p>10. The Crash, Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen<\/p>\n<p>The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada\u2019s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSuite 11\u201d \u2014 No. 2 on the original fiction list \u2014 is a sequel of sorts, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-2508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}