Skip to content

Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

New Moon Rising

Eugenia Price

Entered Jul 20, 1969 · 7 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 14, 1969

Book Power
29.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#9
1 week there · Aug 17, 1969
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
7
July 1969 – September 1969

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
Eugenia Priceprimary100%29.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 17, 1969 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Love MachineJacqueline Susann
  2. #2The GodfatherMario Puzo
  3. #3Portnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth
  4. #4The Andromeda StrainMichael Crichton
  5. #5The PretendersGladys Rockmore Davis
  6. #6Ada, or Ardor: a Family ChronicleVladimir Nabokov
  7. #7The Goodbye LookRoss MacDonald
  8. #8Except for Me and TheeJessamyn West
  9. #9New Moon RisingEugenia Price
  10. #10The Death CommitteeNoah Gordon

The #1 bestsellers of 1969

1969 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1969.