Best-Selling Books of 2012
The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.
A definitive look back at the 2012 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.
One phenomenon swallowed the year: E.L. James's Fifty Shades trilogy took the top three spots and reappeared as a boxed set, the fastest-selling adult fiction the chart had seen. Its erotic wake pulled up Sylvia Day's Bared to You and Reflected in You. Beneath the frenzy, dystopian YA surged as The Hunger Games and its sequels charted alongside a trilogy box set. The surprises are tender outliers, Jojo Moyes's Me Before You and A Street Cat Named Bob, a busker-and-his-cat memoir that became a sensation. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies brought a second Booker. A year defined by one runaway erotic blockbuster.
Born in 2012? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2012 — books, film, games and music.
