Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 12.1
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #12
- 1 week there · Feb 4, 1979
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 5
- January 1979 – February 1979
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Renault | primary | 100% | 12.1 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Feb 4, 1979 on the timeline →The #1 bestsellers of 1979
1979 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1979.
- Chesapeake · James A. Michener
- War and Remembrance · Herman Wouk
- Overload · Arthur Hailey
- The Matarese Circle · Robert Ludlum
- Good as Gold · Joseph Heller
- Sophie's Choice · William Styron
- The Last Enchantment · Mary Stewart
- Jailbird · Kurt Vonnegut
- The Dead Zone · Stephen King
- The Establishment · Howard Fast
- Triple · Ken Follett