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 18-24, 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. A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen
4. Death on the Island by Eliza Reid
5. The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
6. Finding Flora by Elinor Florence
7. The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
8. The Maid's Secret by Nita Prose
9. The Adversary by Michael Crummey
10. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight

Canadian nonfiction

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. The Crisis of Canadian Democracy by Andrew Coyne
6. 52 Ways to Reconcile by David A. Robertson
7. The Essential Cottage Cookbook by Andrea Buckett
8. Ally is a Verb by Rose LeMay
9. Encampment by Maggie Helwig
10. How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron

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. Carson Crosses Canada by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Kass Reich
3. The Great Dinosaur Sleepover by Lindsay Bailey, illustrated by Joe Bluhm
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. I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
8. The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
9. Your Forest by Jon Klassen
10. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw