Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Day of the Jackal
Entered Sep 5, 1971 · peaked at #1 on Oct 17, 1971 · 36 weeks on the list, last seen May 7, 1972
- Book Power
- 409.4
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 7
- weeks on top
- Top-ten weeks
- 36
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 36
- September 1971 – May 1972
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Forsyth | primary | 100% | 409.4 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Oct 17, 1971 on the timeline →- #1The Day of the JackalFrederick Forsyth
- #2The ExorcistWilliam Peter Blatty
- #3WheelsArthur Hailey
- #4The OtherThomas Tryon
- #5The Shadow of the LynxVictoria Holt
- #6Theirs Was the KingdomR.F. Delderfield
- #7The DriftersJames A. Michener
- #8Message from MalagaHelen MacInnes
- #9The Bell JarSylvia Plath
- #10The Passions of the MindIrving Stone