The Canadian Book Market 2025, is out now! It’s your definitive guide to understanding the Canadian book market, making business decisions, identifying trends, opportunities for growth, and more. In this year's edition you’ll find:
Top-level consumer data from BookNet’s Canadian Book Consumer survey panel, including insights about book buying, discoverability, purchasing behaviour, and more.
French Canadian trade book market sales data from the Société de gestion de la Banque de titres de langue française (BTLF).
A section featuring insights into the sales of books by Canadian contributors and Canadian-owned publishing houses.
English Canadian trade book market sales data by subject from BNC SalesData — for more than 50 subject categories. Including top-level data: total value and volume of sales, percent change from the previous year; the subject’s share of the total market; weekly sales analysis; market shares by volume for the top 10 ranked publishers and distributors; and much more.
Information about the top circulated subject categories and titles in Canadian libraries.
Highlights
We've compiled some highlights in the infographic below (scroll down for the text version of these stats). But to get the whole picture of the Canadian book market, be sure to purchase your copy.
The book industry in 2025
In 2025, we tracked sales for 883,932 unique ISBNs, which translated to 47,931,564 physical books sold at a total value of $1,145,862,744.
Combined, the sales of Juvenile and Young Adult subjects accounted for the majority of the market share at 39%. In second place, Non-Fiction made up 30%, and Fiction occupied the third place at 29%.
The top Juvenile & YA titles were Dog Man: Big Jim Believes by Dav Pilkey and Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins respectively.
The top two Non-Fiction titles were The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins & Sawyer Robbins and Every Salad Ever: From Grains to Greens and Pasta to Beans Plus Every Salad in Betweens by Greta Podleski.🍁
The top two Fiction titles were Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros and The Housemaid by Freida McFadden.
In the French-Canadian market, Juvenile & YA also had the biggest portion of sales throughout 2025, accounting for 44% of the trade market. The best-selling title in this subject category was Astérix en Lusitanie by Fabcaro & Didier Conrad.
Other highlights include
Books by Canadians made up 14% of print book sales in Canada in 2025, up from 12% in 2024.
The Non-Fiction title Every Salad Ever: From Grains to Greens and Pasta to Beans Plus Every Salad in Betweens by Greta Podleski 🍁, published by One Spoon Media Inc., was the top-selling book by a Canadian author as well as from a Canadian-owned publisher in 2025.
The top-selling English language print book in Canada last year was The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins.
More than half of the titles on the top 10 paperback lists in the Fiction / Thriller category were by Freida McFadden, with the top selling title being The Housemaid.
For the eighth year running, two out of every five print books sold in 2025 in both the English- and French-language markets in Canada were categorized as either Juvenile or Young Adult (YA).
Dav Pilkey is once again at the top of the Juvenile category, for the sixth year in a row, but this time with Dog Man: Big Jim Believes.
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