Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Facing the Lions

Tom Wicker

Entered Jun 24, 1973 · peaked at #3 on Jul 8, 1973 · 18 weeks on the list, last seen Oct 21, 1973

Book Power
153.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
18
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
18
June 1973 – October 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
Tom Wickerprimary100%153.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 8, 1973 on the timeline →
  1. #1Breakfast of ChampionsKurt Vonnegut
  2. #2Once Is Not EnoughJacqueline Susann
  3. #3Facing the LionsTom Wicker
  4. #4The Odessa FileFrederick Forsyth
  5. #5The Matlock PaperRobert Ludlum
  6. #6Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard Bach
  7. #7Evening in ByzantiumIrwin Shaw
  8. #8The Summer Before the DarkDoris Lessing
  9. #9Law and OrderDorothy Uhnak
  10. #10Sleeping BeautyRoss MacDonald