Best Selling Hardbacks of 2005

The 42 best selling hardbacks of 2005 on Amazon UK, taken from the year’s top 100 books.

The #1 best selling hardback of 2005 is “Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince: Adult Edition (Harry Potter 6): 6/7”.

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These are the hardbacks that sold the most on Amazon UK in 2005. We take the year’s top 100 best selling books, keep the ones whose charting edition is a hardback, and rank them in sales order. Each book also shows where it finished in the overall chart.

Top 42 Hardbacks of 2005

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#2 — Jamie's Italy

Jamie's Italy

#3 in all books

Rating: 4.4
#4 — Untold Stories

Untold Stories

#11 in all books

Rating: 4.3
#5 — Thud! (Discworld Novels)

Thud! (Discworld Novels)

#13 in all books

Rating: 4.7
#7 — Great Lies to Tell Small Kids

Great Lies to Tell Small Kids

#16 in all books

Rating: 4.0
#8 — Extreme: My Autobiography

Extreme: My Autobiography

#17 in all books

Rating: 4.5
#9 — Margrave Of The Marshes

Margrave Of The Marshes

#19 in all books

Rating: 4.4
#10 — The Kitchen Diaries

The Kitchen Diaries

#23 in all books

Rating: 4.7
#11 — Rick Stein's French Odyssey

Rick Stein's French Odyssey

#29 in all books

Rating: 4.7
#12 — Jamie's Dinners

Jamie's Dinners

#30 in all books

Rating: 4.3
#13 — Mao: The Unknown Story

Mao: The Unknown Story

#35 in all books

Rating: 3.8
#14 — Predator

Predator

#36 in all books

Rating: 3.1
#17 — The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl)

The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl)

#42 in all books

Rating: 4.4
#18 — The Silver Spoon (Cooking)

The Silver Spoon (Cooking)

#44 in all books

Rating: 4.4
#19 — Eldest (Inheritance Cycle)

Eldest (Inheritance Cycle)

#47 in all books

Rating: 4.2
#22 — The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse

#53 in all books

Rating: 4.0
#24 — Charlie Cook's Favourite Book

Charlie Cook's Favourite Book

#56 in all books

Rating: 4.4
#25 — Schott's Almanac 2006

Schott's Almanac 2006

#57 in all books

Rating: 4.9
#26 — Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy

Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy

#60 in all books

Rating: 4.4
#28 — Flanimals

Flanimals

#63 in all books

Rating: 4.0
#29 — Birds Britannica

Birds Britannica

#65 in all books

Rating: 4.8
#31 — Good To Great

Good To Great

#71 in all books

Rating: 4.6
#32 — More Flanimals

More Flanimals

#74 in all books

Rating: 4.4
#33 — Collins Complete DIY Manual

Collins Complete DIY Manual

#77 in all books

Rating: 4.6
#37 — My Spin on Cricket

My Spin on Cricket

#84 in all books

Rating: 2.5
#38 — The River Cottage Family Cookbook

The River Cottage Family Cookbook

#85 in all books

Rating: 4.6
#39 — Where's My Cow? (Discworld)

Where's My Cow? (Discworld)

#89 in all books

Rating: 4.3
#41 — Soup Kitchen

Soup Kitchen

#92 in all books

Rating: 4.6
#42 — DC Confidential

DC Confidential

#95 in all books

Rating: 3.4

Frequently asked questions

What is the best selling hardback of 2005 in the UK?

"Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince: Adult Edition (Harry Potter 6): 6/7" is the best selling hardback of 2005 on Amazon UK. It is number 2 in the overall top 100 books of the year.

What are the top 10 hardbacks of 2005?

The top 10 hardbacks of 2005 on Amazon UK are: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince: Adult Edition (Harry Potter 6): 6/7; 2. Jamie's Italy; 3. Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?: The Encyclopedia of Modern Life; 4. Untold Stories; 5. Thud! (Discworld Novels); 6. Talk To The Hand. The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life; 7. Great Lies to Tell Small Kids; 8. Extreme: My Autobiography; 9. Margrave Of The Marshes; 10. The Kitchen Diaries.

How is this chart worked out?

It is Amazon UK's top 100 best selling books of the year, filtered to the hardback editions and re-ranked. A book counts only when the edition in the chart is the hardback.