Books most frequently purchased by visitors to the 2025 Kyiv International Book Arsenal festival

Several Ukrainian publishers shared lists of books that visitors to the 2025 Kyiv International Book Arsenal festival bought most often. The data on the most popular books were published on the publishers’ social media accounts.

The following are their rankings of the most popular editions:

Fabula:

“The Trees” by Everett Percival

“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving

“Revolution” by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“Ukrainian Palaces. Restoring History. The Golden Age” by Akim Halimov, Ruslan Sharipov

“The Unfinished Manuscript” by Franck Thilliez 

Discursus:

“Pan. A Novel about Yevhen Chykalenko” by Stepan Protsiuk

“Hands and Tears. A Novel about Ivan Franko” by Stepan Protsiuk

“Dear Little Book” by Paraskeva Plytka-Horytsvit

“The Last Ukrainians” by Oleh Kryshtopa

“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi 

Vivat:

“The Ukrainian Language: A Journey from Bad Ems to Strasbourg” by Orysia Demska

“Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone” by Benjamin Stevenson

“Doctor Seraficus” by V. Domontovych

“Above the Black Sea” by Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky

“Free Voices of Crimea” (anthology)

Laboratoria:

“Ukrainian Radio: A Century of Turbulent History” by Vadym Misky, Tamara Huseinova, concept by Dmytro Khorkin

“And Now There’s No One Left to Ask … How to Research Your Family History?” by Anna Nikolaieva

“What Will Be Used in World War III? New Ukrainian Weapons” by Roman Romaniuk

“Weight Off Your Shoulders: How to Identify and Overcome 13 Psychological Barriers” by Mariia Fabrycheva

“There Is Land Beyond Perekop” by Anastasia Levkova 

АССА:

“The Adventures of Toto” (series)

“Year-Long Course of Tasks and Exercises”

“Smart Toddler: My First Tasks”

Vikhola:

“The End of a Legend” by Yurii Shevelov

“From the Land of Rice and Opium” by Sofia Yablonska

“The Problem of Great Literature” by Viktor Petrov

“Dancing with Bones” by Andrii Semianiv

“Notes of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles” by Volodymyr Vynnychenko

 Ranok:

Children’s Literature:

Anastasiia Yevdokymova “What Is It? Ukrainian Literature”

Yuliia Olefir “Restless Animals. The Capybara from the Smoothie Bar”

Anna Povkh “This Is a Girl’s Thing!”

Rick Riordan “Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse. Book 3”

Montse Junyent “My First Book of Economics”

Readberry Imprint:

Tanya Good “The Key to the Afterlife”

Anna Savas “Hold Me. New England Ballet School”

Danielle L. Jensen “The Saga of the Unwoven Fates. Fate Written in Blood”

Erin Watt  “The Royals. Broken Prince”

Holly Jackson “Neither Dead Nor Alive”

As reported earlier, during the festival, Ukrainians donated 1,255 books for the Armed Forces as part of the “Books to the Front” initiative. 

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