Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
Entered Aug 5, 1973 · peaked at #3 on Sep 30, 1973 · 23 weeks on the list, last seen Jan 13, 1974
- Book Power
- 188.6
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 23
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 23
- August 1973 – January 1974
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Emil Erdman | primary | 100% | 188.6 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Sep 30, 1973 on the timeline →- #1The Hollow HillsMary Stewart
- #2Breakfast of ChampionsKurt Vonnegut
- #3The Billion Dollar Sure ThingPaul Emil Erdman
- #4Once Is Not EnoughJacqueline Susann
- #5Facing the LionsTom Wicker
- #6Harvest HomeThomas Tryon
- #7World Without End, AmenJimmy Breslin
- #8Curse of the KingsVictoria Holt
- #9The SalamanderMorris L. West
- #10The Odessa FileFrederick Forsyth