Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The First Circle

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Entered Oct 13, 1968 · peaked at #4 on Feb 9, 1969 · 22 weeks on the list, last seen Mar 16, 1969

Book Power
135.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
22
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
22
October 1968 – March 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
Alexander Solzhenitsynprimary100%135.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 9, 1969 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Salzburg ConnectionHelen MacInnes
  2. #2A Small Town in GermanyJohn le Carré
  3. #3AirportArthur Hailey
  4. #4The First CircleAlexander Solzhenitsyn
  5. #5Force 10 from NavaroneAlistair MacLean
  6. #6Preserve and ProtectAllen Drury
  7. #7And Other StoriesJohn O'Hara
  8. #8The Hurricane YearsCameron Hawley
  9. #9Testimony of Two MenTaylor Caldwell
  10. #10A World of ProfitLouis Auchincloss