April 18, 2025 (Publisher's Weekly) –
Power Player
TikTok Boom
By the time Barbara “Brunch with Babs” Costello debuted with the 2022 recipe collection Celebrate with Babs, she had amassed 1.7 million TikTok followers. Her follow-up, Every Day with Babs, lands at #2 on our hardcover nonfiction list with more than twice as many print copies sold in its first week; she’s now at 4.2 million followers. Registered dietician Kylie Sakaida’s first cookbook,
Never? Have I Ever!
Mirror, Mirror
Kaylie Smith’s Enchantra, #1 on our trade paperback list, is a spicy standalone romantasy in which “seven immortal siblings are trapped in a deadly game of hide and seek,” according to the book’s publisher, “until one mortal woman changes the rules.” One notch below, K.A. Knight’s Den of Vipers is a work of romantic suspense; per the publisher, “Caught between four dangerous men, one woman indulges her hidden desires, in this deliciously dark reverse-harem romance.” Though the plots are different (we think), the covers have us seeing double: each features a human skull wreathed by botanica of unknown provenance and adorned with rose blooms. Both are set against black backgrounds with a dominant secondary color (purple for Enchantra, red for Den of Vipers) and where the Vipers cover features a poisonous snake, Enchantra’s distinguishing totem appears to be an old-fashioned high school ring.
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