Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 1.8
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #16
- 1 week there · May 28, 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.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vita Sackville-West | primary | 100% | 1.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 28, 1961 on the timeline →- #1The Agony and the EcstasyIrving Stone
- #2To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
- #3The Last of the JustAndre Schwarz-Bart
- #4A Burnt-Out CaseGraham Greene
- #5MidcenturyJohn Dos Passos
- #6HawaiiJames A. Michener
- #7Winnie Ille PuA. A. Milne
- #8China CourtRumer Godden
- #9Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
- #10The ChateauWilliam Maxwell
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