Best-Selling Books of 2011

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2011 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

One Day reached number one as the film tie-in arrived, leading a year shaped by big cross-platform franchises. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire saga charted four volumes as Game of Thrones hit television, and Stieg Larsson's trilogy still lingered. The dominant trend is the celebrity-driven memoir and tie-in, Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, the Downton Abbey companion, Frozen Planet. The genuine surprise is The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal's quiet meditation on netsuke, charting amid the blockbusters. Caitlin Moran's How To Be a Woman announced a new feminist voice. A year of franchises with one delicate outlier.

Born in 2011? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2011 — books, film, games and music.

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One Day

4.0 · 3

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

4.4 · 2

The Help

4.8 · 1

River Cottage Veg Every Day! (River Cottage Every Day)

4.8 · 3

The Dukan Diet

4.1 · 9

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

4.2 · 944

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever (Book 6)

4.7 · 781

Jamie's Great Britain

4.4 · 252

Baking Made Easy

4.5 · 658

Guinness World Records 2012

4.5 · 164

Room

4.3 · 9

Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39) (Discworld Novels)

4.6 · 732

Home Cooking Made Easy

4.7 · 403

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

4.7 · 8

Gangsta Granny

4.7 · 2

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

4.2 · 663

Great British Bake Off: How to Bake: The Perfect Victoria Sp...

4.6 · 263

How To Be a Woman

3.9 · 6

Frozen Planet

4.8 · 131

The World of Downton Abbey

4.7 · 224

When God was a Rabbit: The Richard and Judy Bestseller

3.9 · 697

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

4.6 · 511

Inheritance (The Inheritance cycle)

4.5 · 591

The Sense of an Ending

3.9 · 829

Sister

4.0 · 840

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

4.6 · 9

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)

4.7 · 8

The Official Highway Code

4.7 · 7

I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan

4.6 · 485

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

4.3 · 1

A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire)

4.7

A Dance With Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5)

4.3 · 6

Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics)

4.5 · 2

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

4.3 · 9

Death Comes to Pemberley

3.2 · 871

An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

4.4 · 683

The Dukan Diet Recipe Book

3.9 · 237

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

4.7 · 534

War Horse

4.7 · 3

The Secret 10th Anniversary Edition

4.2 · 9

The Life of Lee

4.5 · 342

The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days

4.6 · 367

May I Have Your Attention Please?

4.4 · 331

Wonders of the Universe

4.7 · 270

A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, B...

4.8 · 4

Madeleine

3.9 · 728

Plenty

4.6 · 555

Official One Direction Calendar 2012

4.5 · 48

Afterwards

4.3 · 519

The Gruffalo

4.9 · 7

The LEGO® Ideas Book: You Can Build Anything!

4.3 · 516

The Redbreast: Harry Hole 3

4.2 · 460

The Good Cook

4.5 · 231

Charles Dickens: A Life

4.6 · 194

The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel (Sh...

4.4 · 677

Rick Stein's Spain: 140 New Recipes Inspired by My Journey O...

4.7 · 261

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

4.6 · 6

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

4.4 · 8

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

4.3 · 326

The Thread

4.5 · 1

The Affair: (Jack Reacher 16)

4.5 · 1

Kirstie Allsopp Craft

4.5 · 158

A Storm of Swords: 2 Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire,...

4.7 · 8

To Kill A Mockingbird

4.7 · 5

Never Let Me Go

3.8 · 840

Dead Reckoning: A True Blood Novel

4.2 · 332

The Flavour Thesaurus

4.4 · 408

Room on the Broom

4.9 · 7

The Litigators

4.4

The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen

4.3 · 530

Mud, Sweat and Tears

4.7 · 650

The Official DSA Theory Test for Car Drivers and the Officia...

4.7 · 115

Water for Elephants

4.4 · 476

Before I Go To Sleep

4.2 · 9

11.22.63

4.6 · 6

A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)

4.2 · 1

The Hand That First Held Mine

4.3 · 347

StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Onlin...

3.9 · 293

Jerusalem: The Biography

4.3 · 281

Snowdrops

3.5 · 415

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

4.4 · 529

The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook

4.1 · 819

The Land of Painted Caves (Earths Children 6)

3.0 · 751

1Q84: Books 1 and 2

4.1 · 352

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

4.2 · 743

Private Eye The First 50 Years: An A-Z

4.6 · 73

Where's the Meerkat?

4.4 · 168

Of Mice and Men: York Notes for GCSE

4.6 · 387

Scorpia Rising (Alex Rider)

4.8 · 446

Nemesis: Harry Hole 4

4.4 · 335

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

4.3 · 739

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (Book 4)

4.7 · 8

Construction Skills Health & Safety Test: All the Questions ...

4.5 · 158

The Highway Rat

4.6 · 409

The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book]

4.7 · 1

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

4.4 · 2

Death of Kings (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 6)

4.6 · 636

Beano Annual 2012 (Annuals 2012)

4.7 · 62

The Tiger's Wife

3.5 · 142

The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartim...

4.3 · 521

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