Best-Selling Books of 2001
The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.
A definitive look back at the 2001 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.
Cookery and Hogwarts again dominated, with Happy Days with the Naked Chef at number one and the two Comic Relief Harry Potter spin-offs, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, at two and three. What stands out is the rise of literary fiction selling like blockbusters: Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Ian McEwan's Atonement and a still-charting Captain Corelli's Mandolin all crowd the upper reaches. The sleeper is The Dog Listener, a dog-training manual outselling most novels, while Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution at four announced the low-carb craze about to swallow the decade. A year poised between comfort reads and a coming diet obsession.
Born in 2001? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2001 — books, film, games and music.
