Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Prize
Entered Jun 24, 1962 · peaked at #3 on Sep 30, 1962 · 32 weeks on the list, last seen Feb 3, 1963
- Book Power
- 220.7
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 24
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 32
- June 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irving Wallace | primary | 100% | 220.7 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Sep 30, 1962 on the timeline →- #1Ship of FoolsKatherine Anne Porter
- #2Dearly BelovedAnne Morrow Lindbergh
- #3The PrizeIrving Wallace
- #4Youngblood HawkeHerman Wouk
- #5The ReiversWilliam Faulkner
- #6Another CountryJames Baldwin
- #7UhuruRobert Ruark
- #8Seven Days in MayFletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
- #9Act of AngerBart Spicer
- #10Portrait in BrownstoneLouis Auchincloss