Best-Selling Books of 2004
The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.
A definitive look back at the 2004 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.
Gillian McKeith's You Are What You Eat topped the chart, and the diet-and-detox theme ran deep, but the real story was Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code at two, with Angels And Demons, Deception Point and Digital Fortress all riding its coat-tails. One blockbuster pulled an author's entire backlist up the list. McCall Smith repeated the trick, placing four No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency titles. The surprise is Ricky Gervais's Flanimals, an absurd children's book, at five, alongside Susanna Clarke's doorstop fantasy Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. A year when one runaway thriller and one diet guru shaped everything around them.
