Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 1.8
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #16
- 1 week there · Aug 13, 1961
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 1
- August 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sara Kasdan | primary | 100% | 1.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Aug 13, 1961 on the timeline →- #1The Agony and the EcstasyIrving Stone
- #2Mila 18Leon Uris
- #3To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
- #4The Edge of SadnessEdwin O'Connor
- #5The Winter of Our DiscontentJohn Steinbeck
- #6Tropic of CancerHenry Miller
- #7The CarpetbaggersHarold Robbins
- #8RembrandtGladys Schmitt
- #9Mothers and DaughtersEvan Hunter
- #10A Journey to MatecumbeRobert Lewis Taylor
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