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Green Darkness

Anya Seton

Entered Dec 17, 1972 · 25 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 10, 1973

Book Power
197.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#3
7 weeks there · first Mar 11, 1973
Top-ten weeks
25
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
25
December 1972 – June 1973

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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Anya Setonprimary100%197.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 11, 1973 on the timeline →
  1. #1Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard Bach
  2. #2The Odessa FileFrederick Forsyth
  3. #3Green DarknessAnya Seton
  4. #4Semi-ToughDan Jenkins
  5. #5August 1914Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  6. #6The Sunlight DialoguesJohn Gardner
  7. #7The Persian BoyMary Renault
  8. #8The CameronsRobert Crichton
  9. #9Elephants Can RememberAgatha Christie
  10. #10SnowfirePhyllis A. Whitney

The #1 bestsellers of 1973

1973 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1973.