Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Ulysses

James Joyce

Entered Feb 5, 1934 · peaked at #2 on Feb 12, 1934 · 9 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 2, 1934

Book Power
81.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
9
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
9
February 1934 – April 1934

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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
James Joyceprimary100%81.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 12, 1934 on the timeline →
  1. #1Work of ArtSinclair Lewis
  2. #2UlyssesJames Joyce
  3. #3The State Versus Elinor NortonMary Roberts Rinehart
  4. #4Anthony AdverseHervey Allen
  5. #5The Thin ManDashiell Hammett
  6. #6A Modern TragedyPhyllis Bentley
  7. #7The MotherPearl S. Buck
  8. #8Within This PresentMargaret Ayer Barnes