Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Satanic Verses
Entered Mar 5, 1989 · peaked at #1 on Mar 26, 1989 · 24 weeks on the list, last seen Aug 20, 1989
- Book Power
- 224.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 9
- weeks on top
- Top-ten weeks
- 19
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 24
- March 1989 – August 1989
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salman Rushdie | primary | 100% | 224.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Mar 26, 1989 on the timeline →- #1The Satanic VersesSalman Rushdie
- #2StarDanielle Steel
- #3The EdgeDick Francis
- #4Billy BathgateE. L. Doctorow
- #5Cat's EyeMargaret Atwood
- #6A Prayer for Owen MeanyJohn Irving
- #7The Long Dark Tea-Time of the SoulDouglas Adams
- #8MidnightDean R. Koontz
- #9The FortuneMichael Korda
- #10The Sands of TimeSidney Sheldon