Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Entered Jul 7, 1968 · peaked at #7 on Jul 7, 1968 · 3 weeks on the list, last seen Dec 15, 1968
- Book Power
- 17.3
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 3
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 3
- July 1968 – December 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Baldwin | primary | 100% | 17.3 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jul 7, 1968 on the timeline →- #1AirportArthur Hailey
- #2CouplesJohn Updike
- #3Testimony of Two MenTaylor Caldwell
- #4Myra BreckinridgeGore Vidal
- #5VanishedFletcher Knebel
- #6TopazLeon Uris
- #7Tell Me How Long the Train's Been GoneJames Baldwin
- #8ChristyCatherine Marshall
- #9The Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam Styron
- #10Heaven Help Us!Herbert Tarr