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The Latest Books To Go Viral (at least according to Amazon and other retailers). Please know this list isn’t recommended by us, but rather us providing you with information on the most popular books currently as of May 2025. While we have read and enjoyed some of these books, some of the books on this list we do not like. This is an unbiased list of books based on data.
Best Selling Booklist from USA Today Data HERE
Mysteries and Thrillers
- The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
- All The Colors of The Dark by Chris Whitaker
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
- The Teacher by Freida McFadden
- Mated to the Monster by Sarah Spade
- Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
- Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
- Never Lie by Freida McFadden
- Ward D by Freida McFadden
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
- The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
- The Inmate by Freida McFadden
- The Island by Adrian McKinty
- The Only One Left by Riley Sager
- The Ritual by Shantel Tessier (dark romance)
- Gray After Dark by Noelle West Ihli
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- Keep It In The Family by John Marrs
Teen and Young Adult
- The Hunger Games Series (Ballars of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins released!)
- Sarah J Mass Throne of Glass series
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- An Heir Comes to Rise: An Heir Comes to Rise Book 1by Chloe Penaranda
- That’s Not My Name by Megan LAlly
- Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
- My Fault by Mercedes Ron
- The Lightlark Saga by Alex Aster
- The Zodiac Academy Series by Caroline Peckham and Susanna Valenti
- The Crimson Moth series by Kristen Ciccarelli
- Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Shatter Me Series by Tahereh Mafi
- Caravel series by Stephanie Garber
- Boys Of Tommen Series by Chloe Walsh
- Nothing Like The Movies by Lynn Painter
- An Amber in The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
- A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Romance
- Lights Out by Vanessa Allen
- Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
- Slammed by Colleen Hoover
- The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
- Part Of Your World by Abby Jimenez
- Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
- The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore
- Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
- The Seven Husbands of Evenlyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
- Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez
- Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage
- Christmas in Coconut Creek by Karissa Kinword
- Forged in Blood by Sadie Kincaid
- The Friend Zone by Abby Jimene
- Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings
- Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas
Literature And Fiction
- Credence by Penelope Douglas
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
- CIRCE by Madeline Miller
- In Fire Years by Rebeca Serle
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor dostoyevsky
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- The Five Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- A Court of throne and roses by sarah j maas
- Throne of glass series by sarah j maas
- fourth wing by rebecca Yarros
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Cresent City series by sarah j maas
- Heavenly Bodies by Imani Erriu
- From Blood and Ash by Jennifer Armentrout
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Quicksilver by Callie Hart
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Viciously Yours by Jamie Applegate Hunter
- Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
- One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman and Ros Schwartz
- Brandon Sanderson’s The Way Of Kinds
- A Shadow In The Ember by Jennifer L Armentrout
- The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
- TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea
Nonfiction
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Mountain is you by Brianna Wiest
- The courage toi be disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi and Abraham Verghese
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy
- The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir
- 101 essays that will change the way you think by brianna wiest
- The yar of magical thinking joan didion
- How to keep house while drowning by kc davis
- Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
- All About Love by Bell Hooks
- Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
- Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
- Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
- Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
- What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About by Michele Filgate
- Meet Your Match by Kandi Steiner
- How The Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
See Amazon’s full list here
Adult Fiction
- Just for the summer by Abby Jimenez
- Fourth wing by rebecca yarros
- Twisted love series by Ana Huan
- Happly place by Emily Henry
- The locked door by Freida Mcfadden
- Love and other words by Christina Lauren
- Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings
- Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- Happy Place by Emily Henry
- The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
- Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
- Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwooid
- Dreamland Billionaries series by Asher Lauren
- The Maple Hill Series by Hannah Grace
- Elle Kennedy Off-Campus Series
- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
- Burtal Prince by Sophie Lark
- Never After Series by Emily McIntire
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- Tender is The Flesh by Adustina Bazterrica
- Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
- The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
from BookOutlet
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