Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The Prize

Irving Wallace

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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Irving Wallaceprimary100%220.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 30, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1Ship of FoolsKatherine Anne Porter
  2. #2Dearly BelovedAnne Morrow Lindbergh
  3. #3The PrizeIrving Wallace
  4. #4Youngblood HawkeHerman Wouk
  5. #5The ReiversWilliam Faulkner
  6. #6Another CountryJames Baldwin
  7. #7UhuruRobert Ruark
  8. #8Seven Days in MayFletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
  9. #9Act of AngerBart Spicer
  10. #10Portrait in BrownstoneLouis Auchincloss