Our Best-Selling Books of 2025

We never know quite what a year will bring us, but as far as books go, 2025 has been full of wonderful surprises.

The list below reflects sales throughout the year, with the exception of any bulk purchases. Roughly a third of the books are independently published, and 25% of them come from overseas. 

We’re grateful to the customers who asked us to track down books like A Child of the Rice Fields and Midweek Recipes, and we congratulate imaginative spirits like Will Horowitz, who brought together the do-good, feel-good East Village Cookbook in support of hunger relief.

1. East Village Cookbook: Adventures, Anecdotes, and Tales of a Downtown New York Community Told Through Our Food, edited by Will Horowitz

2. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect, by Will Guidara

3. A Child of the Rice Fields: Recipes from Noi's Lao Kitchen, by Ponpailin "Noi" Kaewduangdee and Mick Shippen

4. The Noma Guide to Building Flavour, by René Redzepi and The Noma Test Kitchen

5. Septime, by Bertrand Grébaut and Théophile Pourriat

6. Padma's All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond, by Padma Lakshmi

7. The Irish Bakery, by Cherie Denham, Andrew Montgomery, and Kitty Corrigan

8. Six Seasons of Pasta: A New Way with Everyone's Favorite Food, by Joshua McFadden and Martha Holmberg

9. Le Bistrot Paul Bert: French Comfort Food from the Parisian Restaurant, by Bertrand Auboyneau

10. Midweek Recipes: Simple Cooking from an Edinburgh Studio, by Jess Elliott Dennison

11. The Irish Kitchen, by Cherie Denham, Andrew Montgomery, and Kitty Corrigan

12. Cookies: The Best Recipes for the Perfect Anytime Treat, by Vaughn Vreeland and New York Times Cooking

13. McAtlas: A Global Guide to the Golden Arches, by Gary He

14. Athens: Food, Stories, Love, by Diane Kochilas

15. Weekend Recipes, by Jess Elliott Dennison

16. My French Cuisine at Le Poule au Pot, by Jean-François Piège

17. Dorie's Anytime Cakes: Simple, Simpler, Simplest, by Dorie Greenspan

18. On Meat: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen, by Jeremy Fox

19. Monsoon: Delicious Indian Recipes for Every Day and Season, by Asman Khan

20. Linger: Salads, Sweets, and Stories to Savor, by Hetty Lui McKinnon