Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bear Island
Entered Nov 7, 1971 · peaked at #5 on Nov 28, 1971 · 14 weeks on the list, last seen Feb 13, 1972
- Book Power
- 78.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 14
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 14
- November 1971 – February 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alistair MacLean | primary | 100% | 78.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Nov 28, 1971 on the timeline →- #1The Day of the JackalFrederick Forsyth
- #2WheelsArthur Hailey
- #3The ExorcistWilliam Peter Blatty
- #4Message from MalagaHelen MacInnes
- #5Bear IslandAlistair MacLean
- #6Our GangPhilip Roth
- #7The OtherThomas Tryon
- #8The DriftersJames A. Michener
- #9The Winds of WarHerman Wouk
- #10Theirs Was the KingdomR.F. Delderfield