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Changes

Danielle Steel

Entered Sep 11, 1983 · 28 weeks on the list, last seen Mar 18, 1984

Book Power
223.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#2
6 weeks there · first Sep 18, 1983
Top-ten weeks
24
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
28
September 1983 – March 1984

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
Danielle Steelprimary100%223.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 18, 1983 on the timeline →
  1. #1PolandJames A. Michener
  2. #2ChangesDanielle Steel
  3. #3The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco
  4. #4AugustJudith Rossner
  5. #5Hollywood WivesJackie Collins
  6. #6Return of the JediJoan D. Vinge
  7. #7Who Killed the Robins Family?Bill Adler & Thomas Chastain
  8. #8ChristineStephen King
  9. #9The Seduction of Peter S.Lawrence Sanders
  10. #10The Little Drummer GirlJohn le Carré

The #1 bestsellers of 1983

1983 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1983.