{"id":67867,"date":"2025-08-14T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67867\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:48:11","slug":"toronto-star-bestsellers-for-aug-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67867\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Star bestsellers for Aug. 13, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fantasy is back on the bestseller lists this week with two titles taking the No. 1 and 3 spots in original fiction, both of them from authors known as BookTok sensations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccomplice to the Villain\u201d is one of three \u201cVillain\u201d books that started out as a TikTok series. According to BookTokker\u00a0Hannah Nicole Maehrer\u2018s website, the series is \u201c\u2018Once Upon a Time\u2019 meets \u2018The Office.\u2019\u201d It stars Evie Sage who, after applying for an entry-level position as assistant to a villain \u2014 with \u201clight paperwork and occasional beheadings\u201d \u2014 ends up falling in love with the boss.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Carissa Broadbent returns with another book in her \u201cCrowns of Nyaxia\u201d series. In \u201cThe Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk,\u201d a pair of vampire lovers, separated when one is imprisoned by the gods, are offered a path to redemption and back to each other.<\/p>\n

In non-fiction, a couple of books about historical events with far-reaching consequences have joined the original list.<\/p>\n

In \u201cKing of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation,\u201d at No. 3,\u00a0Scott Anderson writes about the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and the terrible judgment of then-president Jimmy Carter and other Americans in relation to the ruler. The Iranian Revolution, the book argues, was as world-shattering as the French and Russian revolutions, according to the Penguin Random House Canada site.<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press review<\/a>, \u201cthe most powerful portions come in the final chapters of the book, which focus on the bombing and the aftereffects of the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No writer could describe the hellscape that the bombs unleashed better than those on the ground who survived it.\u201d<\/p>\n

1. Accomplice to the Villain,\u00a0Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Red Tower (1)*<\/p>\n

2. She Didn\u2019t See It Coming, Shari Lapena, Doubleday Canada (2)*<\/p>\n

3. The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk, Carissa Broadbent, Bramble (1)<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Doubleday Canada (10)<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Viking (14)<\/p>\n

6. Don\u2019t Let Him In, Lisa Jewell, Atria (7)<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster (19)<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0My Friends,\u00a0Fredrik Backman, Simon & Schuster (15)<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0The Woman in Suite 11, Ruth Ware, Simon & Schuster (5)<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Not Quite Dead Yet, Holly Jackson, Doubleday Canada (3)<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt, Penguin (58)<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,\u00a0Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart (23)<\/p>\n

3. King of Kings, Scott Anderson, Signal (1)<\/p>\n

4. Disney Adults, A.J. Wolfe, Gallery (1)<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0The Serviceberry,\u00a0Robin Wall Kimmerer, Scribner (37)<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0I Am Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne, Chris Ayres, Grand Central (3)<\/p>\n

7. The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, Garrett M. Graff, Avid Reader (1)<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Children Like Us, Brittany Penner, Doubleday Canada (2)<\/p>\n

9. Everything Is Tuberculosis, John Green, Penguin Young Readers Group (9)<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Anatomy of a Cover-Up, Paul Palango, Random House Canada (9)<\/p>\n

1. She Didn\u2019t See It Coming, Shari Lapena, Doubleday Canada<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0This Summer Will Be Different, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Finding Flora, Elinor Florence, Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune, Viking<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0A Most Puzzling Murder, Bianca Marais, Mira<\/p>\n

8. The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, Margaret Atwood, McClelland & Stewart<\/p>\n

9. I Hope You Remember, Josie Balka, Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n

10. The Maid\u2019s Secret, Nita Prose, Viking<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Value(s),\u00a0Mark Carney, Signal<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,\u00a0Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Outsider, Brett Popplewell, HarperCollins Canada<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Children Like Us, Brittany Penner, Doubleday Canada\u00a0<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Anatomy of a Cover-Up, Paul Palango, Random House Canada<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism, Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0A History of Canada in Ten Maps, Adam Shoalts, Penguin Canada<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Murder, Madness and Mayhem, Mike Browne, HarperCollins Canada<\/p>\n

9. The Massey Murder, Charlotte Gray, HarperCollins Canada<\/p>\n

10. The Golden Daughter, Halina St. James, House of Anansi<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Magic of the Wizard Dragon (Dragon Masters #29), Tracey West, Graham Howells, Scholastic<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Sunrise on the Reaping,\u00a0Suzanne Collins, Scholastic<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Glorious Rivals, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0T Is for Terry, Denise Dias, No\u00e9mie Gionet Landry, Scholastic<\/p>\n

5. I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived #12), Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik, Graphix<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0The Summer I Turned Pretty, Jenny Han,\u00a0Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n

7. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, Dav Pilkey, Graphix<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0A Theory of Dreaming (deluxe edition), Ava Reid, HarperCollins<\/p>\n

9. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw, Firefly<\/p>\n

10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle, Penguin Young Readers Group<\/p>\n

1. Every Salad Ever, Greta Podleski, One Spoon<\/p>\n

2. The Essential Cottage Cookbook, Andrea Buckett, Appetite by Random House<\/p>\n

3. Bernardin Complete Book of Home Preserving, Judi Kingry, Lauren Devine, Sarah Page, Robert Rose<\/p>\n

4. Wood, Fire and Smoke, Michael Smith, Penguin Canada<\/p>\n

5. Half Baked Harvest Quick and Cozy, Tieghan Gerard, Clarkson Potter<\/p>\n

6. Shred Happens, Arash Hashemi, Rodale<\/p>\n

7. I Love You, Pamela Anderson, Voracious<\/p>\n

8. Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, Matty Matheson,\u00a0Appetite by Random House<\/p>\n

9. The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook, Meredith Hayden, Ten Speed<\/p>\n

10. Easy 10, Amy Sheppard, Quadrille<\/p>\n

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":"Fantasy is back on the bestseller lists this week with two titles taking the No. 1 and 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-67867","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\/67867","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=67867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}