Best-Selling Books of 2006
The top 100 books — paperbacks and hardbacks alike — on Amazon UK that year.
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No novel led; instead The Dangerous Book for Boys, a nostalgic guide to penknives and go-karts, topped a chart oddly devoted to curiosity and trivia. The QI universe was everywhere, The Book of General Ignorance, two New Scientist question-books, and Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion riding the era's atheism debate. Word-of-mouth fiction held firm with The Kite Runner and The Time Traveler's Wife. The sleeper charmer is Marley & Me, a memoir about a badly behaved labrador, alongside Freakonomics bringing pop-economics to the masses. A year that prized knowing odd facts over reading stories.
Born in 2006? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2006 — books, film, games and music.
