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Where Eagles Dare

Alistair MacLean

Entered Dec 17, 1967 · 8 weeks on the list, last seen Feb 25, 1968

Book Power
36.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#8
2 weeks there · first Jan 7, 1968
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
8
December 1967 – February 1968

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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
Alistair MacLeanprimary100%36.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 7, 1968 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam Styron
  2. #2TopazLeon Uris
  3. #3ChristyCatherine Marshall
  4. #4The Gabriel HoundsMary Stewart
  5. #5The InstrumentJohn O'Hara
  6. #6The ExhibitionistHenry Sutton
  7. #7The ChosenChaim Potok
  8. #8Where Eagles DareAlistair MacLean
  9. #9The President's Plane Is MissingRobert J. Serling
  10. #10Rosemary's BabyIra Levin

The #1 bestsellers of 1968

1968 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1968.