What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week's bestsellers

Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from May 3-10, 2025.

Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from over 260 Canadian independent stores. 

Canadian fiction

 One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune is the #1 Canadian fiction book this week. 

One Golden Summer is a follow-up to her debut book Every Summer After and follows Alice, a photographer seeking a quiet, restorative summer at her childhood cottage with her grandmother. But her plans for peace are upended when Charlie — charming, flirtatious, and impossible to ignore — unexpectedly reappears. Soon, Alice finds herself feeling like she's 17 again, questioning whether this summer might hold something more than she ever expected.

• A fan-favourite character returns in Carley Fortune's One Golden Summer

See the full Canadian fiction list below: 

1. One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
2. The Cost of a Hostage by Iona Whishaw
3. The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
4. Finding Flora by Elinor Florence
5. The Maid's Secret by Nita Prose
6. The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
7. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight
8. Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew
9. Death on the Island by Eliza Reid
10. On Isabella Street by Genevieve Graham

Value(s) by Mark Carney is the #1 Canadian nonfiction book this week.

Values is a book by the former Bank of Canada governor and current prime minister Mark Carney. Published in 2021, Values looks at the "fault lines" that divide contemporary society — racial, geographical, cultural and economic — and argues that they all stem from the same thing: a crisis of values. In the book, Carney offers a vision of a "more humane society" and a map toward getting there.

• Mark Carney is inspired by the normal, everyday heroes

See the full Canadian nonfiction list below: 

1. Value(s) by Mark Carney 
2. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
3. The Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
4. Try Hard by Max Kerman 
5. Ally is a Verb by Rose LeMay
6. The Essential Cottage Cookbook by Andrea Buckett
7. How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron
8. A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer
9. The Crisis of Canadian Democracy by Andrew Coyne
10. Tahini Baby by Eden Grinshpan

Canadian kids 

Mallory and the Trouble with Twins by Arley Nopra is the #1 Canadian kids' book this week. 

In Mallory and the Trouble with Twins, Mallory is confident in her babysitting skills — after all, she's taken care of her seven younger siblings for years. But when she starts watching the Arnold twins, Marilyn and Carolyn, she quickly realizes they're more trouble than she expected! The twins play tricks, act spoiled and make her job a nightmare! Still, as a responsible member of the Baby-Sitters Club, Mallory refuses to give up.

• Amid Baby-Sitters Club revival, fans hail influence of Asian-American character Claudia

See the full kids list below:

1. Mallory and the Trouble with Twins by Arley Nopra
2. The Great Dinosaur Sleepover by Lindsay Bailey, illustrated by Joe Bluhm
3. Carson Crosses Canada by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Kass Reich
4. The New Girl by Cassandra Calin
5. The Land Knows Me by Leigh Joseph, illustrated by Natalie Schnitter
6. Shark Girl by Kate Beaton
7. Your Forest by Jon Klassen
8. Paws: Hazel Has Her Hands Full by Nathan Fairbairn, illustrated by Michele Assarasakorn
9. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw
10. Together, a Forest by Roz MacLean