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Rule Britannia

Daphne Du Maurier

Entered Feb 18, 1973 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
4.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#9
1 week there · Feb 18, 1973
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
February 1973

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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
Daphne Du Maurierprimary100%4.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 18, 1973 on the timeline →
  1. #1Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard Bach
  2. #2The Odessa FileFrederick Forsyth
  3. #3Semi-ToughDan Jenkins
  4. #4August 1914Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  5. #5The Persian BoyMary Renault
  6. #6Green DarknessAnya Seton
  7. #7The CameronsRobert Crichton
  8. #8Elephants Can RememberAgatha Christie
  9. #9Rule BritanniaDaphne Du Maurier
  10. #10The Sunlight DialoguesJohn Gardner

The #1 bestsellers of 1973

1973 in books →

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