Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Chess Players
Entered Jan 15, 1961 · peaked at #7 on Feb 26, 1961 · 14 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 23, 1961
- Book Power
- 51.4
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 7
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 14
- January 1961 – April 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frances Parkinson Keyes | primary | 100% | 51.4 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Feb 26, 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
- #7The Chess PlayersFrances Parkinson Keyes
- #8The Dean's WatchElizabeth Goudge
- #9Pomp and CircumstanceNoel Coward
- #10A Sense of ValuesSloan Wilson