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      What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week's bestsellers | CBC Books Loaded
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      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 25-June 2, 2025.
      CBC Books · Posted: Jun 05, 2025 11:01 AM EDT | Last Updated: June 5

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      Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from May 25-June 2, 2025.

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

      Canadian fiction

      A composite image of a book cover that shows a man and woman in a boat on the water on the left and a smiling woman with long brown hair sitting with a laptop decorated with stickers
      One Golden Summer is a novel by Carley Fortune. (Penguin Random House Canada, Jenna Marie Wakani)

      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. Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
      3. The Cost of a Hostage by Iona Whishaw
      4. Finding Flora by Elinor Florence
      5. Death on the Island by Eliza Reid
      6. A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen
      7. The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
      8. The Adversary by Michael Crummey
      9. The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
      10. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight

      Canadian nonfiction

      A book cover of scaffolding around the globe. A headshot of Mark Carney.
      Values is a nonfiction book by Mark Carney. (Signal, Toby Madden)

      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. Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
      4. The Crisis of Canadian Democracy by Andrew Coyne
      5. 52 Ways to Reconcile by David A. Robertson
      6. Try Hard by Max Kerman 
      7. Ally is a Verb by Rose LeMay
      8. The Essential Cottage Cookbook by Andrea Buckett
      9. Indigenous Rights in One Minute by Bruce McIvor
      10. Big Girls Don't Cry by Susan Swan

      Canadian kids 

      On the left the author and illustrator smiles at the camera. On the right an illustration of three young girls, two of them twins.
      Mallory and the Trouble with Twins is a graphic novel by Arley Nopra. (Submitted by Arley Nopra, Graphix)

      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 Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
      5. The New Girl by Cassandra Calin
      6. I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
      7. The Land Knows Me by Leigh Joseph, illustrated by Natalie Schnitter
      8. The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson
      9. The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
      10. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw

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