Several books that released in January 2025 have hit Hidden Gems, my curated list of top-selling books through online retail that aren’t from the major publishers.
- Number 3: The deluxe, limited edition of Four Ruined Realms by Mai Corland (Entangled)
- Number 4: The Crash (Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks), another thriller by Freida McFadden
- Number 7: H.D. Carlton, perhaps best known for her bestselling Cat and Mouse Duet series, has a new release, Phantom.
- Number 12: Rachel Hollis, who had a really bad time in 2021, has a new book out, What If YOU Are the Answer, published by Authors Equity.
- Number 18: O’Reilly Media has hit the Hidden Gems list for the first time with AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen
Click here to view all bestseller lists for January 2025, including bestselling self-published titles in ebook and print book format.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
