NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers

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This is part of the Post 45 Data Collective. This data has been peer-reviewed and verified.

Being the dork I am, I wrote a script to do some calculations to the find the titles that had been ranked #1 for the most weeks (not necessarily consecutively).

My results (yes, the ALL CAPS formatting pains me too):

  1. THE DA VINCI CODE (59)
  2. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (54)
  3. HAWAII (49)
  4. THE CAINE MUTINY (48)
  5. THE SOURCE (41)
  6. LOVE STORY (41)
  7. JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL (38)
  8. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (38)
  9. TRINITY (36)
  10. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (34)

The fiction bestseller list of The New York Times between the years of 1931 and 2020. Each row of the dataset is a single “entry” on the list, that is, a single slot for a single week. Altogether, the dataset features just over 60,000 rows.

This is item #23 in a sequence of 47 items.

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