Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Tar Baby

Toni Morrison

Entered Apr 19, 1981 · peaked at #5 on Jun 21, 1981 · 17 weeks on the list, last seen Aug 16, 1981

Book Power
69.7
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
17
April 1981 – August 1981

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
Toni Morrisonprimary100%69.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 21, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1Noble HouseJames Clavell
  2. #2Gorky ParkMartin Cruz Smith
  3. #3God Emperor of DuneFrank Herbert
  4. #4Free Fall in CrimsonJohn D. MacDonald
  5. #5Tar BabyToni Morrison
  6. #6The White HotelD.M. Thomas
  7. #7The CovenantJames A. Michener
  8. #8XPDLen Deighton
  9. #9MasqueradeKit Williams
  10. #10CreationGore Vidal