Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ship of Fools
Entered Apr 15, 1962 · peaked at #1 on Apr 29, 1962 · 44 weeks on the list, last seen Feb 17, 1963
- Book Power
- 505.8
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 26
- weeks on top
- Top-ten weeks
- 43
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 44
- April 1962 – February 1963
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katherine Anne Porter | primary | 100% | 505.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Apr 29, 1962 on the timeline →- #1Ship of FoolsKatherine Anne Porter
- #2Franny and ZooeyJ.D. Salinger
- #3The Fox in the AtticRichard Hughes
- #4The Agony and the EcstasyIrving Stone
- #5The Bull from the SeaMary Renault
- #6Devil WaterAnya Seton
- #7A Prologue to LoveTaylor Caldwell
- #8To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
- #9IslandAldous Huxley
- #10Captain Newman, M.D.Leo Calvin Rosten