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The Key

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Entered Mar 19, 1961 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
2.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#15
1 week there · Mar 19, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
March 1961

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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
Jun'ichiro Tanizakiprimary100%2.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 19, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1HawaiiJames A. Michener
  2. #2The Last of the JustAndre Schwarz-Bart
  3. #3Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
  4. #4To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
  5. #5A Burnt-Out CaseGraham Greene
  6. #6Sermons and Soda WaterJohn O'Hara
  7. #7Winnie Ille PuA. A. Milne
  8. #8Decision at DelphiHelen MacInnes
  9. #9Pomp and CircumstanceNoel Coward
  10. #10The Chess PlayersFrances Parkinson Keyes

The #1 bestsellers of 1961

1961 in books →

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