Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Billy Bathgate
Entered Mar 5, 1989 · peaked at #4 on Mar 12, 1989 · 12 weeks on the list, last seen May 28, 1989
- Book Power
- 82.5
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 10
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 12
- March 1989 – May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| E. L. Doctorow | primary | 100% | 82.5 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Mar 12, 1989 on the timeline →- #1StarDanielle Steel
- #2The Satanic VersesSalman Rushdie
- #3The EdgeDick Francis
- #4Billy BathgateE. L. Doctorow
- #5MidnightDean R. Koontz
- #6Cat's EyeMargaret Atwood
- #7The FortuneMichael Korda
- #8The Sands of TimeSidney Sheldon
- #9The Cardinal of the KremlinTom Clancy
- #10RivalsJanet Dailey