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There are two big takeaways from the Star’s rankings of 2022’s bestselling books. The first is that social media — TikTok, I’m looking at you — has upturned the publishing business in connecting readers to books. The second, closely related, is that there is a generational gender gap that has fundamentally changed which books sell … Read more

September — a.k.a. the Annual Book Deluge — is underway, with several new and noteworthy books on the bestseller lists this week. On the Original Fiction list, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s latest, “Carrie Soto Is Back,” arrives at No. 1. It’s a stand-alone, though it occupies the same literary universe as the previous three books in … Read more

Our attention this week is focused on the Non-Fiction list, with three anticipated new books taking their place in the ranking. In top spot on both the Original and the Canadian list is “The Series,” Ken Dryden’s revisiting of the 1972 Summit Series, the almost month-long series of epic hockey matches between Canada and the … Read more

Several interesting books — fiction and non — debut on the bestseller lists this week. The Canadian Fiction list features Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue’s ninth novel, “Haven,” at No. 2 and Toronto writer Joy Fielding’s 31st thriller, “The Housekeeper,” at No. 6. And still another look at the British royals, this time from the prolific … Read more

In this weeks bestsellers lists: Something Old: Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” enjoys comfortable sales year after year. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade, ending the right of women to obtain abortion, and a new season of the Hulu series, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” coming in September have likely … Read more

In this weeks bestsellers lists: Something Old: Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” enjoys comfortable sales year after year. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade, ending the right of women to obtain abortion, and a new season of the Hulu series, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” coming in September have likely … Read more

It took Ruth Ware, recently blurbed by David Baldacci as “the Agatha Christie of our generation,” to unseat TikTok powerhouse Colleen Hoover and her “It Ends With Us” from the No. 1 spot on the Original Fiction list. CoHo (as her fans call her) has held No. 1 since May 25, an epoch for fast … Read more

The Original Non-Fiction list is the interesting place to be this week. Most notable is the top-ranked book, “The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks That Shook the World.” Journalist Andrew Lawton takes us inside the truckers’ protest in Ottawa early this year, offering a narrative starkly at odds with the depiction of … Read more