Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 224.9
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #2
- 5 weeks there · first Aug 15, 1971
- Top-ten weeks
- 24
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 24
- June 1971 – November 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Tryon | primary | 100% | 224.9 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Aug 15, 1971 on the timeline →- #1The ExorcistWilliam Peter Blatty
- #2The OtherThomas Tryon
- #3The Passions of the MindIrving Stone
- #4The Shadow of the LynxVictoria Holt
- #5The Bell JarSylvia Plath
- #6The DriftersJames A. Michener
- #7QB VIILeon Uris
- #8PenmarricSusan Howatch
- #9On Instructions of My GovernmentPierre Salinger
- #10The New CenturionsJoseph Wambaugh
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