Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Fail-Safe
Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler
Entered Nov 4, 1962 · peaked at #2 on Dec 23, 1962 · 30 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 2, 1963
- Book Power
- 283.4
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 29
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 30
- November 1962 – June 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eugene Burdick | primary | 50% | 141.7 |
| Harvey Wheeler | primary | 50% | 141.7 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Dec 23, 1962 on the timeline →- #1Seven Days in MayFletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
- #2Fail-SafeEugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler
- #3A Shade of DifferenceAllen Drury
- #4$100 MisunderstandingRobert Gover
- #5Where Love Has GoneHarold Robbins
- #6The Thin Red LineJames Jones
- #7Ship of FoolsKatherine Anne Porter
- #8Dearly BelovedAnne Morrow Lindbergh
- #9We Have Always Lived in the CastleShirley Jackson
- #10GeniusPatrick Dennis