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Top 10 for 10 Years - 1998
2008 is 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 everyone was talking about at the time.
What you see in the pages that follow is a delicious concoction of books that hit the top sales charts, and books that captured our imagination, and remain top of mind. We hope you enjoy will enjoy the list as much as we enjoyed compiling it.
Select a top ten from a year below:
Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize, this story is set
against a background of political turbulence in
Kerala. The novel tells the story of twins Esthappen
and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and
heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory,
they try to craft a childhood for themselves.
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's sad, funny,
bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York
in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of
extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn
tenements and Limerick slums - too many children,
too little money, his mother Angela barely coping
as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly
brought the family to the brink of disaster.
A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale
that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl.
Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's
most dramatic history, Memoirs of a Geisha uncovers
a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment,
exploitation and degradation.
Set in Cephalonia during the Second World War,
this books tells the story of Pelagia, who reluctantly
falls in love with the captain of the occupying Italian
army. But can this fragile love survive as a war of
bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn
between invader and defender?
Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's
given up smoking and got down to 8st 7lbs, she
will. This book is about a year in the life of a single
girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for selfimprovement.
Acquaint yourself with the one of
the funniest, most heart-warming young ladies ever
to grace the pages of a book.
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman begins
the journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada,
the woman he loved before the war began. As he
attempts to make his way across the mountains,
Ada struggles to make a living from the land her
once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither
knows if the other is still alive.
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific
quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate
longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English
genius. Longitude is also a fascinating brief history
of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.
On 8 December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby
suffered a massive stroke and slipped into a coma.
When he regained consciousness three weeks later,
the only muscle left functioning was in his left eyelid
although his mind remained as active and alert as
it had ever been. This is a most remarkable book
about the triumph of the human spirit, the ability
to invent a life for oneself in the most appalling of
circumstances.
Subtitled 'An old man, a young man, and life's
greatest lesson', this is a true story of a man's
discovery of his mentor and an inspirational parable.
Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their
time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's
lasting gift with the world.
The second novel in the Harry
Potter series launched J.K Rowling
into the international spotlight. It
is Harry’s second year and he
returns to Hogwarts School after
his holidays and little does he
know that this year will be just as
eventful as the last - even getting
there is an adventure in itself!
Horrible and mysterious things
begin to happen.
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