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Red Storm Rising

Tom Clancy

Entered Aug 3, 1986 · 50 weeks on the list, last seen Jul 12, 1987

Book Power
496.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#1
6 weeks there · first Aug 17, 1986
Top-ten weeks
45
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
50
August 1986 – July 1987

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
Tom Clancyprimary100%500.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 17, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Red Storm RisingTom Clancy
  2. #2WanderlustDanielle Steel
  3. #3A Matter of HonorJeffrey Archer
  4. #4Last of the BreedLouis L'Amour
  5. #5Act of WillBarbara Taylor Bradford
  6. #6The Bourne SupremacyRobert Ludlum
  7. #7The Garden of EdenErnest Hemingway
  8. #8The Good MotherSue Miller
  9. #9I'll Take ManhattanJudith Krantz
  10. #10The Eighth CommandmentLawrence Sanders

The #1 bestsellers of 1986

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Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1986.