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Elephants Can Remember

Agatha Christie

Entered Jan 21, 1973 · 10 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 8, 1973

Book Power
47.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#7
1 week there · Feb 25, 1973
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
10
January 1973 – April 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
Agatha Christieprimary100%47.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 25, 1973 on the timeline →
  1. #1Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard Bach
  2. #2The Odessa FileFrederick Forsyth
  3. #3Semi-ToughDan Jenkins
  4. #4August 1914Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  5. #5Green DarknessAnya Seton
  6. #6The CameronsRobert Crichton
  7. #7Elephants Can RememberAgatha Christie
  8. #8The Persian BoyMary Renault
  9. #9The Sunlight DialoguesJohn Gardner
  10. #10The Winds of WarHerman Wouk

The #1 bestsellers of 1973

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