Best Selling Books of 2025

Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2025 which we then included in our Best of the Best of 2025. Now we asked them for their top sellers of 2025 (published in any year).

It would be interesting to compare these charts to non-specialist store/online retailer book sales but it is very hard to get hold of book sales for an entire country.

Amazon UK produced their top sellers of the year (across all genres) and the highest cookbook was Eat Yourself Healthy by Jamie Oliver at #4. Jamie also has the next cookbook in the chart – Easy Air Fryer at #25. Live to Eat by Emily English is at #27 (she also has So Good at #48) ; Mary 90 at #38; Pinch of Nom Slow Cooker at #45 and Pinch of Nom Air Fryer at #49. Another 3 books in the 50-100 places gives a total of 10 food and drink books in the top 100, a big drop from last year’s 19. Presumably almost everyone in the UK now has an air-fryer cookbook since the number of those in the top 100 has dropped from six last year to two this year.

Amazon USA top sellers of 2025 list doesn’t have a cookbook appearing until #65 – From Crook to Cook by Snoop Dogg (a 7 year old title) and The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs by America’s Test Kitchen Kids (another 7 year old) is at #100. And that is it! Rather different to the UK’s top sellers.

Please do remember when buying cookbooks to support your local cookbook store, if you are lucky enough to have one. Most of the stores listed below are also doing mail order and gift vouchers so you can order from them even if you are not local (click the store name to get the contact info).

USA

Omnivore Books (San Francisco)

1. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
2. Cook Like a King by Melissa King
3. Padma’s All American by Padma Lakshmi
4. Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
5. The Vegan Creamery by Miyoko Schinner
6. The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook by Meredith Hayden
7. Umma by Sarah & Nam Soon Ahn
8. Seasons of Greens by Katie Reicher
9. By Heart by Hailee Catalano
10. Easy Weeknight Dinners by Emily Weinstein & NYT Cooking

Now Serving (Los Angeles)

1. The Korean Vegan Homemade by Joanne Lee Molinaro
2. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
3. The Choi of Cooking by Roy Choi
4. By Heart by Hailee Catalano
5. Umma by Sarah & Nam Soon Ahn
6. Fat + Flour by Nicole Rucker
7. Steak House by Eric Wareheim
8. How to Cook the Finest Things in the Sea by Ari Kolender
9. Salsa Daddy by Rick Martinez
10. Six Seasons of Pasta by Joshua McFadden

Kitchen Arts & Letters (New York)

1. East Village Cookbook by Will Horowitz
2. Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
3. A Child of the Rice Fields by Ponpailin “Noi” Kaewduangdee & Mick Shippen
4. The Noma Guide to Building Flavour by René Redzepi & The Noma Test Kitchen
5. Septime by Bertrand Grébaut & Théophile Pourriat
6. Padma’s All American by Padma Lakshmi
7. The Irish Bakery by Cherie Denham
8. Six Seasons of Pasta by Joshua McFadden
9. Le Bistrot Paul Bert by Bertrand Auboyneau
10. Midweek Recipes by Jess Elliott Dennison

Book Larder (Seattle)

1. The Art of Gluten-Free Bread by Aran Goyoaga
2. The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt
3. Umma by Sarah & Nam Soon Ahn
4. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
5. The Wok by J. Kenji López-Alt
6. Six Seasons of Pasta by Joshua McFadden
7. By Heart by Hailee Catalano
8. The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook by Meredith Hayden
9. Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
10. The Choi of Cooking by Roy Choi

Vivienne Culinary Books (Portland OR)

1. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
2. Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
3. Linger by Hetty Lui McKinnon
4. Sweet Tooth by Sarah Fennel
5. Umma by Sarah & Nam Soon Ahn
6. Six Seasons of Pasta by Joshua McFadden
7. The Vegan Creamery by Miyoko Schinner
8. Pulp by Abra Berens
9. The Self-Sufficiency Garden by Huw Richards & Sam Cooper
10. Sift by Nicola Lamb

Bold Fork Books (Washington D.C.)

1. Sally’s Baking 101 by Sally Mckenney
2. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
3. Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
4. By Heart by Hailee Catalano
5. Ghana To The World by Eric Adjepong
6. Salsa Daddy by Rick Martinez
7. D.C. Cocktails by Travis Mitchell
8. The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook by Meredith Hayden
9. Justine Cooks by Justine Doiron
10. Boustany by Sami Tamimi

Binding Agents (Philadelphia)

1. By Heart by Hailee Catalano
2. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
3. Kalaya’s Southern Thai Kitchen by Nok Suntaranon
4. A History of Philadelphia Sandwiches by Mike Madaio
5. Third Culture Cooking by Zaynab Issa
6. Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
7. Rome by Katie Parla
8. We the Pizza by Muhammad Abdul-Hadi
9. Dinner at the Club by Joseph Baldino & Adam Erace
10. Linger by Hetty Lui McKinnon

BEM | books and more (Brooklyn NY)

1. Kwéyòl / Creole by Nina Compton
2. Eating From Our Roots by Maya Feller
3. Rufus Estes’ Good Things To Eat by Rufus Estes
4. American Soul by Anela Malik & Renae Wilson
5. Setting A Place For Us by Hawa Hassan
6. Wine Pairing for the People by Cha McCoy
7. Braided Heritage by Jessica B. Harris
8. Ghana To The World by Eric Adjepong
9. Chop Chop by Ozoz Sokoh
10. We the Pizza by Muhammad Abdul-Hadi

Talbott & Arding (Hudson NY)

1. A School Lunch Revolution by Alice Waters
2. The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters
3. Zuppe by Mona Talbott
4. What Can I Bring? by Casey Elsass
5. Let’s Eat by Dan Pelosi
6. Nights and Weekends by Alexis deBoschnek
7. Sesame by Rachel Simons
8. The New Rules of Cheese by Anne Saxelby
9. The Cook and the Rabbi by Susan Simon & Rabbi Zoe Zak
10. Snacking Dinners by Georgia Freedman

Anchovy Book Company (St Louis MO )

1. Justine Cooks by Justine Doiron
2. Dinner in One by Melissa Clark
3. By Heart by Hailee Catalano
4. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
5. I Dream of Dinner by Ali Slagle
6. Soups, Salads & Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
7. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
8. Tenderheart by Hetty Lui McKinnon
9. Six Seasons of Pasta by Joshua McFadden
10. Mayumu by Abi Balingit

Read it & Eat Bookshop (Buffalo NY)

1. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
2. Linger by Hetty Lui McKinnon
3. Soju Party by Irene Yoo
4. The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook by Meredith Hayden
5. Small Pies, Big Flavor by Helen Nugent
6. Galette! by Rebecca Firkser
7. Soups, Salads, Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
8. Potluck Desserts by Justin Burke
9. The Cook’s Garden by Kevin West
10. Silk Roads by Anna Ansari

Kitchen Lingo Books (Long Beach CA)

1. What is Queer Food? by John Birdsall
2. Mostly French by Makenna Held
3. Hunger Like a Thirst by Besha Rodell
4. The Heart Shaped Tin by Bee Wilson
5. Wildcrafted Seeds & Grains by Pascal Baudar
6. The Science of Flavor by Dr. Stuart Farrimond
7. Pastry Temple by Christina Wood
8. My Bohemian Kitchen by Evie Harbury
9. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
10. The Anthony Bourdain Reader by Anthony Bourdain

The Book Kitchen (Mineral Point, WI)

1. Big Book of Bread by King Arthur Baking Company
2. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
3. Tenderheart by Hetty Lui McKinnon
4. Birrias by Jesse Valenciana
5. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
6. The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs by America’s Test Kitchen Kids
7. Danube by Irina Georgescu
8. Flour + Water: Pasta by Thomas McNaughton
9. Pie Squared by Cathy Barrow
10. What Goes with What by Julia Turshen

CANADA 

Appetite for Books (Montreal)

1. Arthurs Home of the Nosh by Raegan Steinberg, Alexander Cohen & Evelyne Eng
2. Linger by Hetty Lui McKinnon
3. Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
4. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
5. Tahini Baby by Erin Grinshpan
6. By Heart by Hailee Catalano
7. Boustany by Sami Tamimi
8. You Are Human and You Need Cake by Julie Van Rosendaal
9. Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden
10. Good Things by Samin Nosrat

The Cookbook Co. Cooks (Alberta)

1. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
2. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
3. Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
4. Cookies I Have Loved by Julie Van Rosendaal
5. My New Indian Kitchen by Vikram Vij
6. Anna Cooks by Anna Olson
7. Ready for Dessert (Revised) by David Lebovitz
8. Sourdough by Sarah Owens
9. Bread Etc. by Matthew James Duffy
10. Six Seasons of Pasta by Joshua McFadden

Good Egg (Toronto)

1. Umma by Sarah & Nam Soon Ahn
2. Flour is Flavour by Dawn Woodward
3. All That Crumbs Allow by Michelle Marek & Camilla Wynne
4. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
5. Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
6. Sift by Nicola Lamb
7. By Heart by Hailee Catalano
8. Soups, Salads & Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
9. The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting by Yoko Nakazawa
10. Dobre Dobre by Laurel Kratochvila

AUSTRALIA

Scrumptious Reads (Brisbane)

1. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
2. Good Things by Samin Nosrat
3. Kitchen Keepers by Katrina Meynink
4. Modern Australian Baking by Christopher Thé
5. Baking & the Meaning of Life by Helen Goh
6. Linger by Hetty Lui McKinnon
7. Boustany by Sami Tamimi
8. Salad for Days by Alice Zaslavsky
9. The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Nyland
10. Spirited by Adrienne Stillman

NEW ZEALAND

Cook the Books (Auckland)

List not yet received.

U.K.

cookbookbake (Brighton)

List not yet received.

The Kitchen Table (Shaftesbury)

1. Lugma by Noor Murad
2. Rick Stein’s Christmas by Rick Stein
3. Boustany by Sami Tamimi
4. Persiana Easy by Sabrina Ghayour
5. Do Ferment by Matthew Pennington & Nicola Cradock
6. Full of Beans (Bold Beanco) by Amelia Christie-Miller
7. The Greek Islands Cookbook by Carolina Doriti
8. The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting by Yoko Nakazawa
9. Simply Malaysian by Mandy Yin
10. Strong Roots by Olia Hercules

EUROPE

De Kookboekhandel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1. Boustany by Sami Tamimi
2. Makanan Maluku by Mas van Putten and Carl Lemette-Polhaupessy
3. Easy Wins by Anna Jones
4. Dinner by Meera Sodha
5. Toscanini: Pasta by Maud Moody & Leonardo Pacenti
6. Pien’s Dinner Club by Pien
7. Shortlist Amsterdam Red by Famke & Floor van Praag
8. Fusão by Ixta Belfrage
9. Greenfeast by Nigel Slater
10. Tasty 6-Ingredient Meals by Mob 6

Goldhahn und Sampson (Berlin, Germany)

1. Mein allererstes Buch vom Essen (My Very First Book of Food) by Eric Carle
2. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
3. Neue Asiatische Küche by The Duc NGO
4. Was kann das sein – Essen? by Yusuke Yonezu
5. Einfach Chinesisch by Sissi Chen
6. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
7. Raupe Nimmersatt Kochbuch (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) by Eric Carle
8. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
9. Fermentieren, Magie im Glas by Juliette Patissier
10. Easy Wins by Anna Jones