Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The First Counsel

Brad Meltzer

Entered Jan 28, 2001 · peaked at #3 on Mar 4, 2001 · 12 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 15, 2001

Book Power
89.9
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
January 2001 – April 2001

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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
Brad Meltzerprimary100%89.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 4, 2001 on the timeline →
  1. #1A Painted HouseJohn Grisham
  2. #2A Day Late and a Dollar ShortTerry McMillan
  3. #3The First CounselBrad Meltzer
  4. #4Hidden PassionsAlice Alfonsi
  5. #5A Darkness More Than NightMichael Connelly
  6. #6The Cat Who Smelled a RatLilian Jackson Braun
  7. #7Mystic RiverDennis Lehane
  8. #8From the Corner of His EyeDean Koontz
  9. #9DARTH MAUL: Shadow HunterMichael Reaves
  10. #10This Heart of MineSusan Elizabeth Phillips