Most circulated Canadian books: July 2024 to July 2025

We recently released a blog post on bestselling Canadian books. Now we’re checking on the most popular Canadian books in libraries across Canada since June 2024. We took a look at the most circulated books by Canadian contributors in the Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Juvenile subject categories.

The following lists were created based on data from July 1, 2024 to July 6, 2025 using LibraryData, BookNet’s national library collection and circulation analysis tool.

A quick note about the lists: LibraryData uses ISBN clusters to track circulation, holds, etc. in the system. (This differs from SalesData, which reports data at a per-ISBN level.) This is because of how libraries report their collection data to us — their data is broken out by their Catalog ID or record. Each record can contain multiple ISBNs, often all of the editions of a single work. When you use the library, you put a hold on a copy of Pride and Prejudice, for example, and you usually don’t mind which particular edition or ISBN you receive — just that you get the first available copy! Some clusters may contain ISBNs for different but related works. For example, occasionally all of the titles in a series or set may be clustered as a single work.

Overall

1. The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin, illustrated by Arley Nopra 🍁 , et al.

2. Guinness World Records collection

3. Sonic the Hedgehog series by Ian Flynn 🍁

4. The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny 🍁

5. The Maid by Nita Prose 🍁

6. This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune 🍁

7. Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune 🍁

8. Scaredy’s Nutty Adventures series by Melanie Watt 🍁

9. What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena 🍁

10. Adventure Time series by Pendleton Ward, Kate Leth 🍁, et al.

Fiction

1. The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny 🍁

2. The Maid by Nita Prose 🍁

3. This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune 🍁

4. Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune 🍁

5. What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena 🍁

6. The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose 🍁

7. The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn & Janie Chang 🍁

8. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny 🍁

9. Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena 🍁

10. I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay 🍁

Non-Fiction

1. Guinness World Records collection

2. Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 🍁

3. Outlive by Peter Attia MD 🍁 and Bill Gifford

4. The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté MD 🍁 and Daniel Maté

5. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry 🍁

6. The War We Won Apart by Nahlah Ayed 🍁

7. Ducks by Kate Beaton 🍁

8. Closer Together by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau 🍁

9. Fire Weather by John Vaillant 🍁

10. At a Loss for Words by Carol Off 🍁

Juvenile

1. The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin, illustrated by Arley Nopra 🍁 , et al.

2. Sonic the Hedgehog series by Ian Flynn 🍁

3. Scaredy’s Nutty Adventures series by Melanie Watt 🍁

4. Adventure Time series by Pendleton Ward, Kate Leth 🍁, et al.

5. PAWS series by Nathan Fairbairn 🍁, illustrated by Michele Assarasakorn 🍁

6. Sparks! series by Ian Boothby 🍁, illustrated by Nina Matsumoto 🍁

7. Witches of Brooklyn series by Sophie Escabasse 🍁

8. Whatever After series by Sarah Mlynowski 🍁

9. The Lunch Club series by Dom Pelletier 🍁

10. Pyjama Day! by Robert Munsch 🍁, illustrated by Michael Martchenko 🍁

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