Best-Selling Books of 2016
The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.
A definitive look back at the 2016 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.
Joe Wicks's Lean in 15 led, with three more of his Shift, Shape and Sustain plans in the top ten, one fitness brand dominating an entire chart. The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child script came second, reviving the franchise as a play. The defining pattern is comedy parody, the Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups (the Husband, the Wife, the Dad, the Hangover) and Five on Brexit Island repurposing nostalgia for laughs in a politically charged year. The Little Book of Hygge sold Danish cosiness to a jittery public. The surprise is Tim Peake's Hello, is this planet Earth?, photographs from the space station. A year of bodyweight workouts and ironic Ladybirds.
Born in 2016? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2016 — books, film, games and music.