Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The Book of Lights

Chaim Potok

Entered Nov 29, 1981 · peaked at #13 on Dec 20, 1981 · 3 weeks on the list, last seen Jan 24, 1982

Book Power
6.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
3
November 1981 – January 1982

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
Chaim Potokprimary100%6.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 20, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1An Indecent ObsessionColleen McCullough
  2. #2The Hotel New HampshireJohn Irving
  3. #3CujoStephen King
  4. #4No Time for TearsCynthia Freeman
  5. #5Noble HouseJames Clavell
  6. #6Spring MoonBette Bao Lord
  7. #7RemembranceDanielle Steel
  8. #8MasqueradeKit Williams
  9. #9The LegacyHoward Fast
  10. #10Gorky ParkMartin Cruz Smith
The Book of Lights — Chaim Potok · ChartReign