Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Local Anesthetic
Entered May 10, 1970 · peaked at #9 on May 10, 1970 · 2 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 7, 1970
- Book Power
- 9.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 2
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 2
- May 1970 – June 1970
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gunter Grass | primary | 100% | 9.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 10, 1970 on the timeline →- #1Love StoryErich Segal
- #2The French Lieutenant's WomanJohn Fowles
- #3DeliveranceJames Dickey
- #4Travels with My AuntGraham Greene
- #5Losing BattlesEudura Welty
- #6The GodfatherMario Puzo
- #7The Gang That Couldn't Shoot StraightJimmy Breslin
- #8Great Lion of GodTaylor Caldwell
- #9Local AnestheticGunter Grass
- #10Mr. Sammlers PlanetSaul Bellow