The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of August 16, 2025

Hardcover Fiction: August 16, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast WeekWeeks on List
1The Fallen and the Kiss of DuskCarissa BroadbentBramble$41.9972
2Not Quite Dead YetHolly JacksonDoubleday Canada$37.0013
3Every Summer AfterCarley FortuneViking$45.00–1
4The River Is WaitingWally LambMarysue Rucci Books$39.9939
5Onyx StormRebecca YarrosRed Tower Books$39.9968
6Never FlinchStephen KingScribner$43.00512
7Arcana AcademyElise KovaDel Ray$44.0083
8House of the BeastMichelle WongHarper Voyager$42.00–1
9NightshadeMichael ConnellyLittle Brown & Company$40.00–1
10Bury Our Bones in the Midnight SoilV.E. SchwabTor Books$39.99–1

Hardcover Non-Fiction: August 16, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1The Let Them TheoryMel RobbinsHay House$39.991
2Are You Mad at Me?Meg JosephsonGallery Books$39.99–
3The Anxious GenerationJonathan HaidtPenguin Press$39.993
4One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El AkkadMcClelland & Stewart$36.004
5King of KingsScott AndersonSignal$45.00–
6Disney AdultsA.J. WolfeGallery Books$38.99–
7The ServiceberryRobin Wall Kimmerer; John BurgoyneScribner$25.006
8The Devil Reached Toward the SkyGarrett M. GraffAvid Reader Press$45.00–
9Everything Is TuberculosisJohn GreenPenguin Young Readers $38.007
10We Can Do Hard ThingsGlennon Doyle; Abby Wambach; Amanda DoyleThe Dial Press$45.009

Paperback Fiction: August 16, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1Accomplice to the VillainHannah Nicole MaehrerRed Tower Books$26.99–
2She Didn’t See It ComingShari LapenaDoubleday Canada$26.951
3Regretting YouColleen HooverMontlake Romance$20.95–
4AtmosphereTaylor Jenkins ReidDoubleday Canada$26.992
5One Golden SummerCarley FortuneViking$26.954
6Don’t Let Him InLisa JewellAtria Books$26.995
7Broken CountryClare Leslie HallSimon & Schuster$26.999
8My FriendsFredrik BackmanSimon & Schuster$26.996
9The Woman in Suite 11Ruth WareSimon & Schuster$26.993
10In Too DeepLee Child; Andrew ChildDell$14.99–

Canadian Fiction: August 16, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1She Didn’t See It ComingShari LapenaDoubleday Canada$26.951
2One Golden SummerCarley FortuneViking$26.952
3Every Summer AfterCarley FortuneViking$24.953
4This Summer Will Be DifferentCarley FortuneViking$24.956
5Finding FloraElinor FlorenceSimon & Schuster$24.997
6Meet Me at the LakeCarley FortuneViking$24.958
7A Most Puzzling MurderBianca MaraisMIRA$25.9910
8The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret AtwoodMcClelland & Stewart$22.00–
9I Hope You RememberJosie BalkaSimon & Schuster$32.00–
10The Maid’s SecretNita ProseViking$26.95–

Canadian Non-Fiction: August 16, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1ValuesMark CarneySignal$28.002
2The Myth of NormalGabor Maté; Daniel MatéVintage Canada$24.009
3One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El AkkadMcClelland & Stewart$36.003
4Children Like UsBrittany PennerDoubleday Canada$26.996
5Anatomy of a Cover-UpPaul PalangoRandom House Canada$27.954
6Scattered MindsGabor MatéVintage Canada$26.9510
7When the Body Says NoGabor MatéVintage Canada$17.008
8Lessons from Cats for Surviving FascismStewart ReynoldsGrand Central Publishing$26.007
9A History of Canada in Ten MapsAdam ShoaltsPenguin Canada$23.00–
10Witchy StitchingMeg BlackHerbert Press$29.00–

Juvenile: August 16, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1Cozy CornerCoco WyoRandom House Books for Young Readers$12.503
2Dragon Masters #29: Magic of the Wizard DragonTracey West; Graham HowellsScholastic$8.997
3Cozy CutiesCoco WyoRandom House Books for Young Readers$12.505
4Sunrise on the ReapingSuzanne CollinsScholastic Press$36.996
5Glorious RivalsJennifer Lynn BarnesLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers$27.991
6T Is for TerryDenise Dias; Noémie Gionet LandryScholastic Canada$18.994
7I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011Lauren Tarshis; Chris ChalikGraphix$16.99–
8The Summer I Turned PrettyJenny HanSimon & Schuster Books For Young Readers$15.99–
9The Adventures of Super Diaper BabyDav PilkeyGraphix$19.99–
10A Theory of DreamingAva ReidHarper Collins$31.002

Self-Improvement: August 16, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList PriceLast Week
1The Let Them TheoryMel RobbinsHay House$39.991
2The Mountain Is YouBrianna WiestThought Catalog Books$22.992
3Are You Mad at Me?Meg JosephsonGallery Books$39.99–
4The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene; Joost ElffersPenguin Books$35.003
5101 Essays That Will Change the Way You ThinkBrianna WiestThought Catalog Books$20.994
6Think and Grow RichNapoleon HillTarcherPerigee$15.005
7The Life That’s WaitingBrianna WiestThought Catalog Books$25.9910
8When the Body Says NoGabor MatéVintage Canada$24.00–
9The Courage to Be DislikedIchiro Kishimi; Fumitake KogaSimon & Schuster$25.006
10The Four AgreementsDon Miguel Ruiz; Janet MillsTarcher$17.509

Romance/Erotica: August 16, 2025

RankTitleAuthorPublisherList Price
1One Golden SummerCarley FortuneViking$26.95
2Every Summer AfterCarley FortuneViking$24.95
3This Summer Will Be DifferentCarley FortuneViking$24.95
4Caught UpNavessa AllenZando$24.99
5Lights OutNavessa AllenZando$24.99
6Problematic Summer RomanceAli HazelwoodBerkley$27.99
7Maybe SomedayColleen HooverPocket Books$14.99
8A Court of Thorns and RosesSarah J. MaasBloomsbury Publishing$25.00
9Counting MiraclesNicholas SparksAnchor Canada$24.00
10Onyx StormRebecca YarrosRed Tower Books$39.99

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