Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
How to Save Your Own Life
Entered Apr 3, 1977 · peaked at #5 on Apr 17, 1977 · 15 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 11, 1977
- Book Power
- 91.3
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 14
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 15
- April 1977 – September 1977
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erica Jong | primary | 100% | 91.3 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Apr 17, 1977 on the timeline →- #1Oliver's StoryErich Segal
- #2TrinityLeon Uris
- #3FalconerJohn Cheever
- #4The Crash of '79Paul E. Erdman
- #5How to Save Your Own LifeErica Jong
- #6Raise the Titanic!Clive Cussler
- #7The Chancellor ManuscriptRobert Ludlum
- #8October LightJohn Gardner
- #9The Valhalla ExchangeHarry Patterson
- #10VoyageSterling Hayden