Best-Selling Books of 2005
The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.
A definitive look back at the 2005 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince claimed the top two places, but 2005 was really the year self-improvement went mainstream: Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Thin, You Are What You Eat, and a cluster of GI-diet books promising slimmer waistlines. Dan Brown's backlist still lingered. The interesting outliers are literary word-of-mouth hits arriving early, Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow Of The Wind, Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, all building the slow-burn momentum that would define them. Even The Times Su Doku crept in as the puzzle craze began. A chart half about losing weight, half about discovering the next big read.
