Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The Tower of Babel

Morris West

Entered Feb 25, 1968 · peaked at #3 on Mar 24, 1968 · 17 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 23, 1968

Book Power
123.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
17
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
17
February 1968 – June 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
Morris Westprimary100%123.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 24, 1968 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam Styron
  2. #2VanishedFletcher Knebel
  3. #3The Tower of BabelMorris West
  4. #4TopazLeon Uris
  5. #5ChristyCatherine Marshall
  6. #6Myra BreckinridgeGore Vidal
  7. #7The ExhibitionistHenry Sutton
  8. #8The President's Plane Is MissingRobert J. Serling
  9. #9Rosemary's BabyIra Levin
  10. #10The InstrumentJohn O'Hara
The Tower of Babel — Morris West · ChartReign