Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ghost Story
Entered Apr 29, 1979 · peaked at #7 on May 27, 1979 · 19 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 2, 1979
- Book Power
- 67.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 6
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 19
- April 1979 – September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Straub | primary | 100% | 67.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 27, 1979 on the timeline →- #1The Matarese CircleRobert Ludlum
- #2Good as GoldJoseph Heller
- #3Hanta YoRuth Beebe Hill
- #4THE THIRD WORLD WAR: August 1985General Sir John Hackett
- #5War and RemembranceHerman Wouk
- #6ChesapeakeJames A. Michener
- #7Ghost StoryPeter Straub
- #8The Vicar of ChristWalter F. Murphy
- #9ShibumiTrevanian
- #10Ss-GbLen Deighton