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Myra Breckinridge

Gore Vidal

Entered Mar 3, 1968 · peaked at #2 on Apr 21, 1968 · 30 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 22, 1968

Book Power
265.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
30
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
30
March 1968 – September 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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Gore Vidalprimary100%265.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 21, 1968 on the timeline →
  1. #1AirportArthur Hailey
  2. #2Myra BreckinridgeGore Vidal
  3. #3VanishedFletcher Knebel
  4. #4The Tower of BabelMorris West
  5. #5The Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam Styron
  6. #6TopazLeon Uris
  7. #7ChristyCatherine Marshall
  8. #8CouplesJohn Updike
  9. #9The ExhibitionistHenry Sutton
  10. #10The President's Plane Is MissingRobert J. Serling