Best-Selling Books of 2018

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2018 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine led, the literary book-club hit of the year, but 2018's real signature was the rise of the smart, funny memoir-with-a-cause: Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt at two and Michelle Obama's Becoming at three. Joe Wicks and Sapiens kept their multi-year grip. The pattern beneath is wellness anxiety, Why We Sleep, the 4 Pillar Plan and Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life all promising order. The sleeper is The Wonky Donkey, a children's book made viral by a giggling grandmother. The Tattooist of Auschwitz charted twice. A year of doctors, First Ladies and a laughing nan.

Born in 2018? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2018 — books, film, games and music.

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: Debut Sunday Times Best...

4.7 · 4

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

4.8 · 5

Becoming

4.8 · 5

Lose Weight for Good: Full-flavour cooking for a low-calorie...

4.6 · 9

The Ice Monster

4.8 · 528

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

4.6 · 3

5 Ingredients - Quick & Easy Food

4.7 · 8

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

4.4 · 6

Guinness World Records 2019

4.8 · 289

Where's the Unicorn? (Search and Find Activity)

4.7 · 609

BOSH!: Simple recipes. Unbelievable results. All plants. The...

4.7 · 4

The Wonky Donkey

4.8 · 3

Ottolenghi SIMPLE

4.6 · 352

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

4.7

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown (Book 13) (Diary of a Wim...

4.8 · 302

First Man In: Leading from the Front

4.6 · 5

You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brillia...

4.7 · 293

Fire and Fury

3.9 · 966

The World’s Worst Children 3: Fiendishly Funny New Short Sto...

4.6 · 356

The Keeper of Lost Things: winner of the Richard & Judy Read...

4.4

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

4.6 · 1

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the heart-breaking and unforgett...

4.7 · 9

Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestsell...

4.3 · 704

The Fat-Loss Plan: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes with Workouts

4.4 · 314

Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

4.7 · 734

Deliciously Ella The Plant-Based Cookbook: The fastest selli...

4.7 · 495

Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Step...

4.6 · 329

Jamie Cooks Italy – Jamie Oliver

4.6 · 332

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

4.5 · 805

Veggie Lean in 15: 15-minute Veggie Meals with Workouts

4.4 · 292

The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move and Sleep Your Wa...

4.8 · 675

Joe's 30 Minute Meals: 100 Quick and Healthy Recipes

4.6 · 198

The Official DVSA Highway Code

4.7

Tombland (The Shardlake series)

4.6 · 2

Friend Request: The most addictive psychological thriller yo...

4.3 · 6

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the heart-breaking and unforgett...

4.7 · 9

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold: A Retelling of the Myths of ...

4.5 · 746

Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different

4.5 · 200

Everything I Know About Love

4.4 · 563

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

4.5 · 4

Listening to the Animals: Becoming The Supervet

4.8 · 928

Past Tense: (Jack Reacher 23)

4.0 · 9

Close to Home: The 'impossible to put down' Richard & Judy B...

4.4 · 1

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

4.6

The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck: A Counterintuitive Appr...

4.4 · 782

Factfulness: Why Things Are Better Than You Think - the Perf...

4.8 · 405

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

4.5 · 462

Lethal White: Cormoran Strike Book 4 (Cormoran Strike 4)

4.6 · 1

The Handmaid's Tale: the number one Sunday Times bestseller ...

4.4 · 9

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

4.6 · 2

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – The Original S...

4.5 · 168

Unicorn Colouring Book: For Kids ages 4-8

4.8 · 272

Harry Potter Children's Collection

4.8 · 1

The Official DVSA Theory Test for Car Drivers

4.6 · 589

The Secret

4.5 · 3

Wonder

4.8

Classic: Delicious, no-fuss recipes from Mary’s new BBC seri...

4.8 · 371

The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book: Pit your wits against Brita...

4.2 · 172

Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targar...

4.0 · 306

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Su...

4.4 · 552

How to Be a Footballer

4.6 · 474

The World’s Worst Children

4.7

The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book]

4.8 · 7

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

4.4 · 763

Taskmaster: 200 Extraordinary Tasks for Ordinary People

4.7 · 129

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World

4.7 · 367

Pinch of Nom: 100 Slimming, Home-style Recipes

4.8

Beano Annual 2019 (Annuals 2019)

4.9 · 124

The Midnight Gang

4.8 · 956

Notes on a Nervous Planet

4.6 · 353

The 8-week Blood Sugar Diet Recipe Book: Simple delicious me...

4.6 · 5

Gino's Italian Adriatic Escape: A taste of Italy from Veneto...

4.8 · 268

Where's Spot? (Spot - Original Lift The Flap)

4.7 · 855

Milkman: Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018

3.5 · 537

Giraffes Can't Dance

4.8 · 964

Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2

4.6 · 145

Ready Player One

4.6 · 2

The Doctor’s Kitchen: Supercharge your health with 100 delic...

4.5 · 406

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 2019 (Annuals 2019)

4.7 · 109

Thinking, Fast and Slow

4.4 · 977

A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

4.6 · 797

Nadiya’s Family Favourites: Easy, beautiful and show-stoppin...

4.5 · 296

Dear Zoo: Lift the Flaps

4.8 · 5

Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

4.2 · 215

Guess How Much I Love You

4.8 · 881

Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975

4.6 · 203

Norse Mythology

4.5 · 643

The World’s Worst Children 2

4.7 · 526

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

4.5 · 751

Fear: Trump in the White House

4.2 · 230

How To Be Right: … in a world gone wrong

4.4 · 485

Grade 9-1 GCSE English Text Guide - An Inspector Calls (CGP ...

4.7 · 346

The 4-Week Body Blitz: Transform Your Body Shape with My Com...

4.6 · 192

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

4.3 · 194

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

4.8 · 5

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)

4.6

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

4.4 · 4

How Not To Die: Discover the foods scientifically proven to ...

4.8 · 890

FORTNITE Official 2019 Calendar

4.9 · 144

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