Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Instrument
Entered Dec 17, 1967 · peaked at #4 on Feb 4, 1968 · 12 weeks on the list, last seen Mar 24, 1968
- Book Power
- 84.9
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 12
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 12
- December 1967 – March 1968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John O'Hara | primary | 100% | 84.9 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Feb 4, 1968 on the timeline →- #1The Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam Styron
- #2TopazLeon Uris
- #3ChristyCatherine Marshall
- #4The InstrumentJohn O'Hara
- #5The ChosenChaim Potok
- #6The Gabriel HoundsMary Stewart
- #7VanishedFletcher Knebel
- #8Rosemary's BabyIra Levin
- #9The President's Plane Is MissingRobert J. Serling
- #10Where Eagles DareAlistair MacLean