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Top 10 for 10 Years - 2003
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:
An extraordinary and original tale of disaster at
sea. The only survivor from the wreck of a cargo
ship on the Pacific, 16-year-old Pi spends 221 days
on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan
and a 450-pound Royal Bengal Tiger called Richard
Parker. A meditation on faith and the value of
religious metaphor.
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency consists of one
woman, the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe,
who sets up shop in Gabarone, Botswana. This
unlikely heroine specializes in missing husbands,
wayward daughters, con men and impostors.
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller,
but even when he stays safely in his own study at
home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world
around him. This book is his quest to understand
everything that has happened from the Big Bang to
the rise of civilization.
When social histories come to be written of the
first decade of the 21st century, people will note
a turning point in 2003 when declining standards
of punctuation were reversed. Linguists will record
Lynne Truss as the saviour of the semi-colon and
the avenging angel of the apostrophe.
Susie Salmon speaks to us from heaven, because
she was murdered when she was 14 years old by
a man who lived in the same neighbourhood. Over
the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in
love and do the things she has never had the chance
to do. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet.
A victim of time famine, thirty-five-year-old Kate
counts seconds like other women count calories.
Factor in a controlling nanny, a chauvinist Australian
boss, a long-suffering husband, two demanding
children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman
juggling so many balls that some day soon
something's going to hit the ground.
This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of
Clare and Henry. It movingly depicts the effects of
time travel on Henry and Clare's love for each
other and their struggle to lead normal lives in the
face of a force they can neither prevent nor control.
This book contains the 13 principles of witchcraft,
the structure of military hierarchy, clothing care
symbols, a list of the countries where you drive
on the left, a nursery rhyme about sneezing... Schott's
Original Miscellany is entertaining, informative,
unpredictable and utterly addictive.
In the spring of 1999, in the beautiful and seemingly
tranquil hills of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, a
young white farmer is shot dead on the dirt road
running from his father's farmhouse to his irrigation
fields. The murder is the work of assassins rather
than robbers. Journalist Jonny Steinberg travels to
the Midlands to investigate.
Toorbos is 'n bosromanse. Dit is die storie van 'n
ingewyde bosvrou se intieme verbintenis met die
boomhart van die bos, en hoe dit 'n hindernis
geword het in haar belewenis van die man wat sy
liefkry.
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