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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Entered Aug 7, 1960 · 98 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 17, 1962

Book Power
929.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#2
21 weeks there · first Apr 16, 1961
Top-ten weeks
90
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
98
August 1960 – June 1962

Ranked by Book Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a list published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the list.

What it earned each author

Book Power is the book's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each author's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the author had other books charting is split between them.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Harper Leeprimary100%929.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 16, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Last of the JustAndre Schwarz-Bart
  2. #2To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
  3. #3A Burnt-Out CaseGraham Greene
  4. #4HawaiiJames A. Michener
  5. #5The Agony and the EcstasyIrving Stone
  6. #6Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
  7. #7MidcenturyJohn Dos Passos
  8. #8China CourtRumer Godden
  9. #9Winnie Ille PuA. A. Milne
  10. #10Manila GalleonF. Van Wyck Mason

The #1 bestsellers of 1961

1961 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1961.