Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Entered Apr 27, 1969 · peaked at #4 on May 25, 1969 · 16 weeks on the list, last seen Aug 24, 1969

Book Power
112.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
16
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
16
April 1969 – August 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
Kurt Vonnegutprimary100%112.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 25, 1969 on the timeline →
  1. #1Portnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth
  2. #2The GodfatherMario Puzo
  3. #3The Salzburg ConnectionHelen MacInnes
  4. #4Slaughterhouse FiveKurt Vonnegut
  5. #5Except for Me and TheeJessamyn West
  6. #6AirportArthur Hailey
  7. #7Ada, or Ardor: a Family ChronicleVladimir Nabokov
  8. #8The Love MachineJacqueline Susann
  9. #9The Vines of YarrabeeDorothy Eden
  10. #10Bullet ParkJohn Cheever