Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Dreams Die First

Harold Robbins

Entered Oct 30, 1977 · peaked at #6 on Dec 4, 1977 · 25 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 23, 1978

Book Power
114.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
17
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
25
October 1977 – April 1978

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
Harold Robbinsprimary100%114.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 4, 1977 on the timeline →
  1. #1The SilmarillionJ.R.R. Tolkien
  2. #2The Thorn BirdsColleen McCullough
  3. #3The Honourable SchoolboyJohn le Carré
  4. #4Daniel MartinJohn Fowles
  5. #5Beggarman, ThiefIrwin Shaw
  6. #6Dreams Die FirstHarold Robbins
  7. #7IllusionsRichard Bach
  8. #8The ImmigrantsHoward Fast
  9. #9The Book of MerlynTerence H. White
  10. #10The Second Deadly SinLawrence Sanders
Dreams Die First — Harold Robbins · ChartReign