Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 78.3
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #6
- 2 weeks there · first May 2, 1971
- Top-ten weeks
- 14
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 14
- February 1971 – June 1971
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ernest K. Gann | primary | 100% | 78.3 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 2, 1971 on the timeline →- #1The Passions of the MindIrving Stone
- #2QB VIILeon Uris
- #3The New CenturionsJoseph Wambaugh
- #4The Underground ManRoss MacDonald
- #5The Throne of SaturnAllen Drury
- #6The AntagonistsErnest K. Gann
- #7Rich Man, Poor ManIrwin Shaw
- #8Summer of '42Herman Raucher
- #9Love StoryErich Segal
- #10Passenger to FrankfurtAgatha Christie
The #1 bestsellers of 1971
1971 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1971.
- Love Story · Erich Segal
- QB VII · Leon Uris
- The Passions of the Mind · Irving Stone
- The Exorcist · William Peter Blatty
- The Day of the Jackal · Frederick Forsyth
- Wheels · Arthur Hailey