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Top 10 for 10 Years - 2002
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:
According to her own moral calculations, Katie
Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, and
doctors are decent people, and her husband David
is the Angriest Man in Holloway. When David
suddenly becomes good, Katie's sums no longer
add up, and she is forced to ask herself some
questions.
13-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia
strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain
in the garden of their country house. Watching her
is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like
Cecilia, has come down from Cambridge. By the
end of that day, the lives of all three will have been
changed for ever.
A hilarious must-read for anyone who wants to
know how the great and the good screw us over.
It reveals - among other things - how 'President'
Bush stole an election aided by his brother, cousin,
his dad's cronies, electoral fraud and tame judges;
how the rich stay rich while forcing the rest of us
to live in economic fear; and how politicians have
whored themselves to big business.
This volume is not about being a goddess,
but about feeling like one. Nigella shows that
there can be more feelgood mileage from
running up a tray of muffins or baking a
sponge cake than from almost any other
cooking - and that it's not actually hard.
Voted as the most popular novel in the Englishspeaking
world, this is an epic tale in which seemingly
insignificant creatures change the fate of an entire
world.
Looking good has nothing to do with fashion trends.
It's all about what not to wear.... Susannah and
Trinny's straight-talking fashion advice has made
them Britain's best-known style duo. The sartorial
sisters show how to develop personal style, while
making the most of your body shape, hiding your
defects and flaunting those assets!
A young man arrives in Ukraine with a tattered
photograph, a bad translator, a man haunted by
memories and an undersexed guide dog. He is
looking for the woman who saved his grandfather
from the Nazis. What they are looking for seems
elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language
and the horrors of war. What they find turns all
their worlds upside down.
In this portrait of modern global medicine, Jonathan
Kaplan reports from the medical front line and
shatters any preconceptions about the nature of
surgery. He describes what it is to face pain and
death on a regular basis, the world of the operating
theatre and the dark humour required to cope.
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student
at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn
to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate
with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively
develops between them - along with Callie's failure
to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not
like other girls. In fact, Cal has rare genetic mutation.
In this volume, Joseph Stiglitz argues that though
globalization should be a powerful force for good,
it has been badly mishandled by the West, especially
its lead institutions, the World Bank and the IMF,
and that the anti-globalizing protestors have much
to say that we should listen to. This is an explosive
message which may change the way we regard
current global politics.
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