Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 6.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #15
- 2 weeks there · first Dec 23, 1962
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 3
- December 1962 – January 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pierre La Mure | primary | 100% | 6.0 |
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
The #1 bestsellers of 1962
1962 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1962.
- Franny and Zooey · J.D. Salinger
- Ship of Fools · Katherine Anne Porter
- A Shade of Difference · Allen Drury
- Seven Days in May · Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II