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Charles E. Israel

Entered May 7, 1961 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
2.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#15
1 week there · May 7, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
May 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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Charles E. Israelprimary100%2.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 7, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Agony and the EcstasyIrving Stone
  2. #2The Last of the JustAndre Schwarz-Bart
  3. #3A Burnt-Out CaseGraham Greene
  4. #4To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
  5. #5HawaiiJames A. Michener
  6. #6MidcenturyJohn Dos Passos
  7. #7China CourtRumer Godden
  8. #8Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
  9. #9Don't Tell AlfredNancy Mitford
  10. #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.