The most popular summer vacation book in Brazil was “The daughter of the rivers” launched in 2015, with more than 8.8 thousand copies sold . Since October, Ilko Minev’s work leads the list.
Compared to December 2024, seven titles continue on the list, giving space only for three new publications among the bestsellers: “Hundred Years of Solitude” , “Dandandan – Vol. 01” and “The silent patient” which has appeared before in the ranking.
See the best selling fiction books in January 2025
- 1. The daughter of the rivers – 8.8 thousand
Synopsis: In the second half of the 20th century, Maria, a 16 -year -old girl and green eyes, finds herself taken from Igarapó Mirim by Adriano, at the request of her mother, Eulalia. Going down the Purus River, they come to Surara, where they settle in. This is where Mary learns to cook and that the love between her and Adriano Aflora. Maria and Adriano go to Manaus, where they meet Benjamin Melul and his wife Nina and, together, depart for four ASES, a rubber tree on the border of Brazil with Bolivia. After 5 years, when they decide to move, the group is caught by a yellow fever outbreak and only Mary and three children survive. Determined to educate their two children and Alice, the daughter of the couple of friends, Maria works as a cook, in a nightclub and in the Golden Prospecting Draga of Oleg Hazan, a young Bulgarian Jew.
Author: ILKO MINEV
Publisher: Buzz
Pages: 192
- 2. The maid – 6.3 thousand
Synopsis: Every day, Millie cleanses Nina’s house and Andrew Winchester, takes their daughter at school and prepares delicious meals for the family before retiring to finally eat her own dinner, alone in her tiny room in the attic. When Nina gets dirty all the rooms on purpose just to watch her clean, tell disturbing lies about her daughter and psychologically torture her husband, Millie tries not to lose her head. However, looking inside Andrew’s eyes and seeing the suffering in them, Millie can’t stop imagining what Nina’s life would be like to have. Soon Winchesters will find that they have no idea who Millie is real.
Author: Freida McFadden
Editorial: Archer
Pages: 304
- 3. Verity – 5.4 thousand copies
Synopsis: Verity Crawford is the bestseller author behind a successful series. She is at the height of her career when she suffers an accident that leaves her unable to complete the story. With this, Lowen Ashleigh, a writer on the verge of bankruptcy, is invited to write, under one pseudonym, the remaining three books of the already consolidated Verity series. So that he can better understand the creative process, Lowen decides to spend a few days at the Crawford House, where he finds a kind of autobiography in which the writer tells the facts that have happened from the day she meets Jeremy, her husband, to the moment before her accident.
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Record guys
Pages: 320
- 4. The midnight library – 5.2 thousand copies
Synopsis: At 35, Nora Seed is a woman full of talents and few achievements. Sorry for the choices she made in the past, she lives wondering what could have happened if she had lived differently. After being dismissed and his cat is run over, Nora sees little sense in her existence and decides to put an end to everything. However, when you see the midnight library, Nora gains a unique opportunity to live all the lives she could have lived.
Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Bertrand Brasil
Pages: 308
- 5. Everything is Rio – 5 thousand copies
Synopsis: The novel tells the story of the couple Dalva and Venâncio, who has their lives transformed after a tragic loss, the result of her husband’s unhealthy jealousy, and Lucy, the most depraved and coveted prostitute of the city, who enters their way, forming a triangle loving.
Author: Carla Madeira
Publisher: Record
Pages: 210
- 6. This is how it ends – 4.8 thousand
Synopsis: Lily Bloom believes she has found the love of her life, however, after an attitude Kyle’s abusive, she remembers her dark past and must decide whether love itself can take the marriage forward. To further complicate things, an old love reappears in your life.
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Record guys
Pages: 368
- 7. This is how it starts – 4.1 thousand
Synopsis: Lily Bloom continues to manage a flower shop. His former abusive husband, Ryle, is still a surgeon, but now the two are officially divorced and share their daughter, Emerson. Blaming Atlas for the end of his marriage, Ryle is not willing to accept Lily’s new relationship. Alternating between Atlas and Lily’s views, the book reveals the most about Atlas’s past and following Lily’s journey to embrace her second chance, in love while dealing with a jealous ex-husband
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Record guys
Pages: 336
- 8. Hundred Years of Solitude – 3,800 copies
SINPSE: The novel follows seven generations of the Buendía, one of the founding families of Macondo, the fictional village in which history takes place.
Publisher: Record
Pages: 448
- 9. Dandandan – Vol. 01 – 3,100 copies
Synopsis: Momo Ayase, a high school who believes in the existence of spirits, and her classmate that she nicknamed “Okarun”, an addict in aliens, UFOs and unexplained phenomena, decide to prove each other that their beliefs are real. To this end, the first one goes to an abandoned hospital where UFO sighting reports and the second goes to a haunted tunnel.
Publisher: Panini
Pages: 210
- 10. The silent patient – 2,900 copies
Synopsis: Alicia Berenson writes a diary to put his ideas in order. It is both an escape valve and a way to prove to your beloved husband that is well. She can’t bear to be able to live with the idea that she is making Gabriel worried that she is causing her some harm. Alicia Berenson was 33 when she killed her husband with five shots. And never said a word again. Forensic psychotherapist Theo Faber is convinced that he is able to treat Alicia after so many others fail.
Author: Alex Michaelides
Publisher: Record
Pages: 364
This content was originally published in see the best selling fiction books in January 2025 in Brazil on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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