After finishing No. 2 in 2024, Australian author Luka T. Jacobs rises to the top spot in 2025. Jacobs had the most titles (9) and the most number ones (2) featured on the four Cryptid Quarterly charts in 2025.

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Her chart-toppers included Clash of the Cryptids: Part 2, the fourth book in her Nicole Beretti Thriller series. It was a riveting follow-up to Clash of the Cryptids: Part 1, which ended on a shocking cliffhanger that elevated the entire series by delving into Beretti’s past.

 

Jacobs’ other chart-topper was Sasquatch Massacre. Set in Montana on Christmas Eve, Sasquatch Massacre is an old-fashioned creature feature about a town of locals defending themselves against enraged Sasquatches after a couple of humans accidentally encroach on their territory.

 

While the Nicole Beretti Thriller series dominated the Cryptid Quarterly charts in 2025, another of Jacobs’ series – Forest of the Sasquatch – reached the chart three times, including the Book 4 finale.

 

Jacobs is not slowing down in 2026. She released Book 8 in the Nicole Beretti Thriller series in January and Book 1, 2 & 3 in a new series titled The Sycamore Run Estate Series in March.