Best-Selling Books of 2017

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2017 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

Jamie Oliver's 5 Ingredients topped a list that, beneath the cookery, revealed a hunger for big-think nonfiction: Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and its sequel Homo Deus both charted, alongside Prisoners of Geography. The striking pattern is dystopia returning to relevance, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale charting twice as the TV adaptation landed, with Orwell's 1984 not far off. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls signalled a new feminist children's wave. The surprise is school set texts, An Inspector Calls and a GCSE poetry guide, selling in bulk as exam-prep titles. A year of grand history, revived dystopia and curriculum reading.

Born in 2017? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2017 — books, film, games and music.

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5 Ingredients - Quick & Easy Food

4.7 · 8

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

4.6 · 9

Lean in 15 - The Shift Plan: 15 Minute Meals and Workouts to...

4.6 · 4

Tom Kerridge's Dopamine Diet: My low-carb, stay-happy way to...

4.1 · 787

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

4.7 · 469

The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet: Lose weight fast and reprogramm...

4.5 · 4

Cooking for Family and Friends: 100 Lean Recipes to Enjoy To...

4.6 · 216

The Clever Guts Diet: How to revolutionise your body from th...

4.6 · 621

Mary Berry Everyday

4.5 · 610

Lean in 15 - The Sustain Plan: 15 Minute Meals and Workouts ...

4.7 · 456

The World’s Worst Children 2

4.7 · 247

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

4.5 · 411

Lean in 15 - The Shape Plan: 15 Minute Meals With Workouts t...

4.7 · 925

DVSA Official 2015 Highway Code

4.7 · 7

La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One (Book of Dust ...

4.3 · 144

The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)

4.3

The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Recipe Book

4.6 · 741

The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Programme to Help You...

4.5

The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well (Pengu...

4.5 · 505

A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

4.6 · 433

Happy: Finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect

4.7 · 175

Origin: (Robert Langdon Book 5)

4.0 · 557

When Breath Becomes Air

4.6 · 720

Bad Dad

4.8 · 25

Milk and Honey

4.6 · 368

The official DVSA theory test for car drivers

4.7 · 236

New GCSE English Literature AQA Poetry Guide: Power & Confli...

4.8 · 176

The World’s Worst Children

4.7 · 702

The Power: WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICT...

3.9 · 447

The Hairy Dieters Go Veggie (Hairy Bikers)

4.2 · 282

An Inspector Calls (Heinemann Plays For 14-16+)

4.5 · 531

The Secret 10th Anniversary Edition

4.2 · 9

How to Win Friends and Influence People

4.6 · 8

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)

4.6 · 4

The Midnight Gang

4.8 · 680

Everything, Everything

4.6 · 490

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything Yo...

4.6 · 530

The Handmaid's Tale (Vintage Classics)

4.3

James Martin's French Adventure: 80 Classic French Recipes

4.6 · 560

Wonder

4.8 · 9

The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book]

4.7 · 1

GCSE English Text Guide - An Inspector Calls

4.7 · 236

Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (Children’s Pa...

4.8 · 36

The Essex Serpent: The number one bestseller and British Boo...

3.5 · 708

Guess How Much I Love You

4.7 · 8

Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic...

4.6

The Couple Next Door

4.1 · 9

The Girl on the Train

4.2 · 43

Nadiya's British Food Adventure

4.7 · 316

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way ...

4.5 · 5

Keep Calm and Colour Unicorns (Huck & Pucker Colouring Books...

4.6 · 192

The Breakdown: The 2017 gripping thriller from the bestselli...

4.2 · 5

New GCSE Maths Edexcel Revision Guide: Higher - for the Grad...

4.6 · 143

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: 1/7 (Harry Potter ...

4.8 · 36

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Ca...

4.8 · 207

The Dry: The most gripping crime thriller of 2017

4.5 · 756

Spinderella

4.5 · 155

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Illustrated Editio...

4.8 · 74

I See You

4.4 · 993

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: The hottest Sunday Time...

4.7 · 852

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

4.4 · 7

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World

4.7 · 141

The Girlfriend: The Most Gripping Debut Psychological Thrill...

4.2 · 5

Thinking, Fast and Slow

4.4 · 811

The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for F...

4.3 · 262

Gangsta Granny

4.7 · 2

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

4.0 · 869

The Detective Dog

4.8 · 149

Know your traffic signs (Driving Skills)

4.6 · 668

New GCSE English Language AQA Complete Revision & Practice -...

4.7 · 134

Lion: A Long Way Home

4.6 · 560

The Tickle Book (Tom and Bear)

4.4 · 576

Grandpa’s Great Escape

4.8 · 6

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: 2/7 (Harry Potter 2...

4.8 · 36

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

4.7

GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide - Macbeth

4.6 · 108

New Grade 9-1 GCSE Biology: AQA Revision Guide with Online E...

4.8 · 70

Dear Zoo

4.8 · 5

A Boy Made of Blocks: The most uplifting novel of 2017

4.7 · 5

Behind Closed Doors

4.2 · 5

A Legacy of Spies

4.3 · 300

All the Light We Cannot See

4.6 · 8

Hurrah for Gin: A book for perfectly imperfect parents

4.9 · 503

New Grade 9-1 GCSE Physics: AQA Revision Guide with Online E...

4.8 · 64

New Grade 9-1 GCSE Chemistry: AQA Revision Guide with Online...

4.8 · 66

Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High P...

4.6 · 416

Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series

4.7 · 6

Awful Auntie

4.8

Deliciously Ella with Friends: Healthy Recipes to Love, Shar...

4.3 · 129

How to Eat Better: How to Shop, Store & Cook to Make Any Foo...

4.8 · 342

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: 3/7 (Harry Potter ...

4.8 · 36

Thirteen Reasons Why (Spinebreakers)

4.3 · 599

Nourish & Glow: The 10-Day Plan

4.2 · 133

Rick Stein's Long Weekends

4.6 · 277

The Girl Before: The Sensational International Bestseller

4.1 · 748

The Day The Crayons Quit

4.7 · 613

Pokemon: Deluxe Essential Handbook

4.9 · 402

What's Happening to Me? (Girls Edition) (Facts of Life)

4.6 · 640

After You

4.4 · 2

The Gustav Sonata

4.3 · 377

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