Dear Fanatics Member,
It’s Fanatics’ 10th anniversary! To celebrate every fanatical year, we have gone back in time,
through the Top 10 books from each of the last 10 years. We picked our favourites from the
bestselling titles, from 1998 to 2007. You’ll enjoy revisiting these chart-toppers – they are the
books absolutely everyone was talking about at the time.
But, somehow, sales did not paint the whole picture. The top ten bestsellers for each year did
not entirely capture the spirit of the bookselling year, the “book hits” for each of the ten years.
There are years you simply cannot consider without mention of that VIB - Very Important Book.
So we consulted the biggest Fanatics of all – the Exclusive Books store managers. What followed
was the addition to the sales list of cult books stretching over the decade.
A cult book is somehow different from simple bestsellers – though many of them are that too. It’s
the book that changed the way you think about food or motherhood, the book that turned you into
an armchair traveller, the book that reminded you what it was like to be young, or the book that got
you hooked on thrillers. You know a cult book when you read one. Do you remember Catch 22,
The Celestine Prophecy and Fear of Flying?
Top 10 for 10 Years is a delicious concoction of books that hit the top sales charts, and books that
captured our imagination, and remain top of mind.