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Top 10 for 10 Years - 2001
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:
This is a story of three girls' search for happiness
- sometimes found in unlikely places. The girls are
looking for a better job, a better man, anything
other than what they've already got; there are men
to die for and men you wish would drop dead,
preferably in agony.
"Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a
car off the bridge." Iris’s, account of her sister
Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest
report proclaiming the death accidental. By turns
lyrical, outrageous and compelling, the novel is
Magaret Atwood at her best.
Dave Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was,
he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a
devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care
but not to David, her son, whom she referred to
as "an It". This is a horrifying account of the bizarre
tortures inflicted on him, by a maniacal, alcoholic
mother.
Follow the Dr Atkins' Diet and forget counting
calories. Watch the fat melt away as a healthier
and firmer body emerges. Enjoy more energy as
well as freedom from a range of ailments from
diabetes to heart disease. Dieting can work, and
with this medically proven regime you can lose
weight without reducing - or counting - calories.
The Corrections brings an old-time America of
freight trains and civic duty into wild collision with
the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting,
do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and New Economy
millionaires. The Corrections has established itself as
a truly great American novel.
In the last volume of the "His Dark Materials"
trilogy, Will and Lyra, the two children at the heart
of the books, have become separated amidst great
dangers. Can they find each other, and their friends
then complete their mysterious quest before it's
too late?
Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on
your perspective. The message of Who Moved My
Cheese? is that all can come to see change as a
blessing if they understand the nature of cheese
and the role it plays in their lives. It is a parable
that takes place in a maze.
This is a captivating account of a top professional
cyclist's battle with cancer, of the trauma of his
treatment and his agonising but ultimately
triumphant return to cycling. An emotional
experience.
By the end of the astonishing E=mc2, a dedicated
reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an
understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and
feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize winners.
It's a lucid, even thrilling study; the very best kind
of science journalism.
The Constant Gardener tells a compelling, complex
story of a man elevated through tragedy as Justin
Quayle - amateur gardener, aging widower, and
ineffectual bureaucrat - discovers his own natural
resources and the extraordinary courage of the
woman he barely had time to love.
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