Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Preserve and Protect

Allen Drury

Entered Sep 29, 1968 · peaked at #2 on Oct 13, 1968 · 28 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 6, 1969

Book Power
265.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
28
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
28
September 1968 – April 1969

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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
Allen Druryprimary100%265.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 13, 1968 on the timeline →
  1. #1AirportArthur Hailey
  2. #2Preserve and ProtectAllen Drury
  3. #3The Salzburg ConnectionHelen MacInnes
  4. #4Testimony of Two MenTaylor Caldwell
  5. #5CouplesJohn Updike
  6. #6True GritCharles Portis
  7. #7The SenatorDrew Pearson
  8. #8Red Sky at MorningRichard Bradford
  9. #9The First CircleAlexander Solzhenitsyn
  10. #10The Queen's ConfessionVictoria Holt