Best-Selling Books of 2010

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2010 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

Jamie Oliver's 30-Minute Meals topped the list, restoring the celebrity-chef tradition, but the Larsson Millennium trilogy filled the next three places as Dragon Tattoo mania peaked. The pattern is heavyweight nonfiction memoir, Keith Richards's Life, Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles, Tony Blair's A Journey, all selling on personality. David Nicholls's One Day broke through at five, the literary romance of the year. The surprise is A Simples Life, a meerkat memoir spun from an insurance advert, charting at seven. The Dukan Diet hinted at the next fad. A year balancing Swedish noir, big memoirs and a comparethemarket meerkat.

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Jamie's 30-Minute Meals: A Revolutionary Approach to Cooking...

4.4 · 2

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium Trilogy Bo...

4.7 · 8

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium Trilogy Book 2)

4.6 · 9

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy Book 1)

4.3 · 1

One Day

4.0 · 3

The Help

4.8 · 1

A Simples Life: The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov

4.5 · 352

Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home

4.6 · 373

The Fry Chronicles

3.9 · 388

Eclipse: 3 (Twilight Saga)

4.6 · 8

Life: Keith Richards

4.3 · 507

A History of the World in 100 Objects

4.6 · 346

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

3.8 · 843

Wolf Hall

3.8 · 4

Breaking Dawn: Twilight, Book 4 (Twilight Saga)

4.4 · 8

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella (Tw...

4.3 · 356

A Journey

3.5 · 263

Guinness World Records 2011

4.6 · 103

Twilight: Twilight, Book 1: 1/4 (Twilight Saga)

4.4 · 2

New Moon: 2 (Twilight Saga)

4.5 · 8

The Dukan Diet

4.1 · 9

Mums Know Best: The Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook

4.6 · 554

What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography

4.5 · 490

Life and Laughing: My Story

4.7 · 778

Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook 200 Slow Cooker Recipes (Hamlyn A...

4.3 · 9

Breaking Dawn: Twilight, Book 4: 4/4 (Twilight Saga)

4.4 · 8

I Shall Wear Midnight: (Discworld Novel 38) (Discworld Novel...

4.7 · 453

The Gruffalo

4.9 · 7

Plenty

4.6 · 555

The Secret 10th Anniversary Edition

4.2 · 9

An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

4.4 · 683

Heartstone (The Shardlake Series)

4.7 · 9

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth (Book 5)

4.7 · 534

Memoirs of a Fruitcake: The Wilderness Years 2000-2010

4.6 · 303

At Home: A short history of private life (Bryson)

4.4 · 529

Sister

4.0 · 840

The Lovely Bones

4.1 · 4

The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook

4.1 · 819

The Official Highway Code

4.7 · 7

Good Food: One-pot Dishes: Triple-tested Recipes: Tried-and-...

4.4 · 286

River Cottage Every Day

4.8 · 3

Zog

4.8 · 509

Dead in the Family: A True Blood Novel

4.3 · 259

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

4.4 · 9

Jamie Does...

4.6 · 117

Room on the Broom

4.9 · 7

The Flavour Thesaurus

4.4 · 408

The Vampire Diaries: Volume 1: The Awakening & The Struggle:...

4.2 · 323

Alone in Berlin (Penguin Modern Classics)

4.5 · 587

Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher)

4.5 · 903

The Snowman: A Harry Hole thriller (Oslo Sequence 5)

4.2 · 743

The Gruffalo's Child

4.8 · 931

Freedom

3.8 · 267

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon)

3.6 · 6

Annabel Karmel's New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner (2...

4.6 · 6

The Devil Rides Out

4.7 · 539

The Time Traveler's Wife

4.3 · 2

Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return): 1/3

3.8 · 162

The Vampire Diaries: Volume 2: The Fury & The Reunion: Books...

4.2 · 148

A Tiny Bit Marvellous

3.4 · 597

Three Cups Of Tea

4.5 · 507

Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal

4.1 · 148

The Snail and the Whale

4.8 · 908

Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister

4.4 · 196

Ottolenghi: The Cookbook

4.7 · 462

Bad Science

4.5 · 865

Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy)

4.5 · 2

Mini Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 6)

4.1 · 364

Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics)

4.5 · 2

The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book]

4.7 · 1

Room

4.3 · 9

The Host

4.5 · 6

The Vampire Diaries: Shadow Souls: Book 6: 2/3

4.2 · 124

The Confession

4.3 · 596

Jamie's Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hou...

4.8 · 848

The Book Thief

4.6 · 4

The Lacuna

4.0 · 231

Kirstie's Homemade Home

4.3 · 133

True Blood Boxed Set (Sookie Stackhouse Vampire)

4.6 · 290

The Little Stranger

3.8 · 467

Tender: Volume II, A cook’s guide to the fruit garden

4.8 · 110

Through My Eyes

3.6 · 76

Jump!

3.5 · 288

Baby's Very First Book:Faces

4.5 · 428

The Grand Design: New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of L...

4.0 · 276

The Finkler Question

2.3 · 337

The Shack

4.2 · 6

The Wheels On The Bus: Favourite Nursery Rhymes (BBC Audio C...

4.4 · 480

The Third Man

3.6 · 142

The White Queen

4.3 · 974

Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Y...

4.3 · 739

The Catcher in the Rye

3.9 · 801

Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth

4.8 · 324

Brooklyn

3.8 · 713

Tender: Volume I, A cook and his vegetable patch

4.8 · 228

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

4.8 · 343

To Kill A Mockingbird

4.7 · 5

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters

4.8 · 352

The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ (Myths)

3.3 · 227

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Cou...

4.5 · 403

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