Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Breathing Lessons

Anne Tyler

Entered Sep 25, 1988 · peaked at #2 on Oct 2, 1988 · 33 weeks on the list, last seen May 28, 1989

Book Power
208.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
21
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
33
September 1988 – May 1989

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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
Anne Tylerprimary100%208.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 2, 1988 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Cardinal of the KremlinTom Clancy
  2. #2Breathing LessonsAnne Tyler
  3. #3Till We Meet AgainJudith Krantz
  4. #4AlaskaJames A. Michener
  5. #5Spock's WorldDiane Duane
  6. #6The Silence of the LambsThomas Harris
  7. #7DoctorsErich Segal
  8. #8The Bonfire of the VanitiesTom Wolfe
  9. #9Shining ThroughSusan Isaacs
  10. #10The Shell SeekersRosamunde Pilcher