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Top 10 for 10 Years - 1999
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:
The sequel to Silence of the Lambs marks the
return of Dr Hannibal Lecter. One of Hannibal's
victims, the influential and rich Mason Verger - a
paraplegic confined to a respirator thanks to
Hannibal - is bent on revenge and FBI agent Clarice
Starling provides the perfect bait.
This guide to successful communication between
the sexes includes: what makes members of the
opposite sex tick; how to understand their verbal
and non-verbal language; how to motivate the
opposite sex and get what you want; and how to
avoid arguments and promote fruitful
communication. This book should help you reach
a point of harmony and understanding.
A divorced, middle-aged professor of English finds
himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his
female students. When discovered by the college
authorities, he is expected to apologize to save his
job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to
live with his daughter. For a time, his daughter's
influence and the natural rhythms of the farm
promise to harmonise his discordant life.
Antjie Krog worked for more than two years with
the many individuals involved in South Africa's
Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Country of
My Skull captures the complexity of the
Commission's work in a uniquely personal narrative
that is harrowing, illuminating and provocative.
Richard Branson's bestselling autobiography features
his latest intrepid ventures in the areas of health,
environment, media and, of course, exploration.
This is an amazing memoir, a definitive business
guide and an inspirational story that reveals Richard's
unique philosophy on business, the Virgin brand
and life.
Designed to inspire confidence in people who
may never have tried cooking before, this is the
first cookbook by the young chef who went on
to become a sensation. It is for those who don't
have time to spend all evening cooking, yet who
want great food kept simple and stylish.
The author argues that our souls evolve as we
develop our own latent powers. This book
examines cases of multi-sensory individuals,
looks at conventional marriages and spiritual
partnerships and at traditional and spiritual
psychology.
This novel traces the relationship between a
German lawyer, Michael, and an older woman,
Hanna. Beginning with their brief affair in
post-war Germany, the book goes on to
Michael's discovery that Hanna had been a
guard attached to a satellite camp at
Auschwitz, a crime for which she is
imprisoned.
Astrid has been raised by her beautiful,
headstrong mother, Ingrid, and the two are
inseparable until Ingrid murders a former
lover and is imprisoned for life. As one of
thousands of foster children in Los Angeles,
Astrid finds strength in her certainty of selfworth
and sense of the absurd.
This powerful, heartwrenching novel draws
on the deepest human emotions: the need
to know oneself, responsibility to family,
the influence of hidden history. The result
is a highly acclaimed story of survival, written
with great sensitivity.
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