Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 203.6
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #3
- 4 weeks there · first Feb 25, 1962
- Top-ten weeks
- 25
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 30
- December 1961 – June 1962
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Caldwell | primary | 100% | 203.6 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Feb 25, 1962 on the timeline →- #1Franny and ZooeyJ.D. Salinger
- #2The Agony and the EcstasyIrving Stone
- #3A Prologue to LoveTaylor Caldwell
- #4To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
- #5Daughter of SilenceMorris L. West
- #6Little MePatrick Dennis
- #7Chairman of the BoredEdward Streeter
- #8The Ivy TreeMary Stewart
- #9Captain Newman, M.D.Leo Calvin Rosten
- #10Spirit LakeMacKinlay Kantor
The #1 bestsellers of 1962
1962 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1962.
- Franny and Zooey · J.D. Salinger
- Ship of Fools · Katherine Anne Porter
- A Shade of Difference · Allen Drury
- Seven Days in May · Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II