Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 100.8
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #7
- 1 week there · Mar 5, 1961
- Top-ten weeks
- 12
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 28
- December 1960 – June 1961
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.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noel Coward | primary | 100% | 100.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Mar 5, 1961 on the timeline →- #1HawaiiJames A. Michener
- #2Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
- #3The Last of the JustAndre Schwarz-Bart
- #4To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
- #5Sermons and Soda WaterJohn O'Hara
- #6Decision at DelphiHelen MacInnes
- #7Pomp and CircumstanceNoel Coward
- #8The Chess PlayersFrances Parkinson Keyes
- #9The Dean's WatchElizabeth Goudge
- #10Winnie Ille PuA. A. Milne
The #1 bestsellers of 1961
1961 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1961.
- Hawaii · James A. Michener
- The Last of the Just · Andre Schwarz-Bart
- The Agony and the Ecstasy · Irving Stone
- Franny and Zooey · J.D. Salinger