Best-Selling Books of 2003
The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.
A definitive look back at the 2003 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix took the top two spots, children's and adult editions both, a sign of how Rowling now sold to grown-ups. Beneath the wizardry, wit ruled: Lynne Truss's punctuation manifesto Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything and two Schott's miscellanies fed a national appetite for clever trivia. The genuine sleeper is The Da Vinci Code, sitting at thirty-nine in 2003 and about to detonate. Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency also surfaced here. A year of smart nonfiction before the thriller deluge.
Born in 2003? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2003 — books, film, games and music.
