Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Sound of Bow Bells
Entered Aug 19, 1962 · peaked at #12 on Aug 26, 1962 · 4 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 16, 1962
- Book Power
- 9.5
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 4
- August 1962 – September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome Weidman | primary | 100% | 9.5 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Aug 26, 1962 on the timeline →- #1Ship of FoolsKatherine Anne Porter
- #2Dearly BelovedAnne Morrow Lindbergh
- #3Youngblood HawkeHerman Wouk
- #4The ReiversWilliam Faulkner
- #5The PrizeIrving Wallace
- #6UhuruRobert Ruark
- #7Another CountryJames Baldwin
- #8Portrait in BrownstoneLouis Auchincloss
- #9The Agony and the EcstasyIrving Stone
- #10Letting GoPhilip Roth