Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 2.1
- 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
- 1
- September 1983
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Peter Blatty | primary | 100% | 2.1 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Sep 4, 1983 on the timeline →- #1The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco
- #2PolandJames A. Michener
- #3AugustJudith Rossner
- #4Hollywood WivesJackie Collins
- #5Return of the JediJoan D. Vinge
- #6ChristineStephen King
- #7The Little Drummer GirlJohn le Carré
- #8The Seduction of Peter S.Lawrence Sanders
- #9GodplayerRobin Cook
- #10The Summer of KatyaTrevanian