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Burr

Gore Vidal

Entered Nov 18, 1973 · peaked at #1 on Dec 9, 1973 · 39 weeks on the list, last seen Aug 11, 1974

Book Power
452.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
21
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
39
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
39
November 1973 – August 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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Gore Vidalprimary100%452.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 9, 1973 on the timeline →
  1. #1BurrGore Vidal
  2. #2The Honorary ConsulGraham Greene
  3. #3The Hollow HillsMary Stewart
  4. #4Theophilus NorthThornton Wilder
  5. #5The First Deadly SinLawrence Sanders
  6. #6The SalamanderMorris L. West
  7. #7The Billion Dollar Sure ThingPaul Emil Erdman
  8. #8Come Nineveh, Come TyreAllen Drury
  9. #9World Without End, AmenJimmy Breslin
  10. #10Once Is Not EnoughJacqueline Susann