Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Thin Red Line
Entered Sep 30, 1962 · peaked at #6 on Oct 28, 1962 · 18 weeks on the list, last seen Feb 3, 1963
- Book Power
- 99.1
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 13
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 18
- September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Jones | primary | 100% | 99.1 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Oct 28, 1962 on the timeline →- #1A Shade of DifferenceAllen Drury
- #2Seven Days in MayFletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
- #3Ship of FoolsKatherine Anne Porter
- #4The PrizeIrving Wallace
- #5Dearly BelovedAnne Morrow Lindbergh
- #6The Thin Red LineJames Jones
- #7The ReiversWilliam Faulkner
- #8Youngblood HawkeHerman Wouk
- #9Act of AngerBart Spicer
- #10Another CountryJames Baldwin