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Seven Days in May

Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II

Entered Sep 23, 1962 · peaked at #1 on Nov 18, 1962 · 48 weeks on the list, last seen Aug 25, 1963

Book Power
553.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
14
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
47
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
48
September 1962 – August 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
Fletcher Knebelprimary50%276.9
Charles W. Bailey IIprimary50%276.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 18, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1Seven Days in MayFletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
  2. #2A Shade of DifferenceAllen Drury
  3. #3Fail-SafeEugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler
  4. #4Ship of FoolsKatherine Anne Porter
  5. #5Dearly BelovedAnne Morrow Lindbergh
  6. #6The Thin Red LineJames Jones
  7. #7Where Love Has GoneHarold Robbins
  8. #8The PrizeIrving Wallace
  9. #9Another CountryJames Baldwin
  10. #10The ReiversWilliam Faulkner