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Shall We Tell the President?

Jeffrey Archer

Entered Dec 25, 1977 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
2.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#15
1 week there · Dec 25, 1977
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
December 1977

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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
Jeffrey Archerprimary100%2.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 25, 1977 on the timeline →
  1. #1The SilmarillionJ.R.R. Tolkien
  2. #2The Thorn BirdsColleen McCullough
  3. #3The Honourable SchoolboyJohn le Carré
  4. #4Beggarman, ThiefIrwin Shaw
  5. #5IllusionsRichard Bach
  6. #6Dreams Die FirstHarold Robbins
  7. #7Daniel MartinJohn Fowles
  8. #8The Book of MerlynTerence H. White
  9. #9The ImmigrantsHoward Fast
  10. #10The Second Deadly SinLawrence Sanders

The #1 bestsellers of 1977

1977 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1977.