Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

A Stranger Is Watching

Mary Higgins Clark

Entered Mar 26, 1978 · peaked at #8 on May 14, 1978 · 13 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 25, 1978

Book Power
42.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
13
March 1978 – June 1978

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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
Mary Higgins Clarkprimary100%42.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 14, 1978 on the timeline →
  1. #1BloodlineSidney Sheldon
  2. #2The Holcroft CovenantRobert Ludlum
  3. #3ScruplesJudith Krantz
  4. #4The Thorn BirdsColleen McCullough
  5. #5The SilmarillionJ.R.R. Tolkien
  6. #6The Human FactorGraham Greene
  7. #7WhistleJames Jones
  8. #8A Stranger Is WatchingMary Higgins Clark
  9. #9The Plague DogsRichard Adams
  10. #10IllusionsRichard Bach