Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

Entered Oct 28, 1935 · peaked at #1 on Nov 4, 1935 · 31 weeks on the list, last seen Dec 14, 1936

Book Power
350.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
8
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
31
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
31
October 1935 – December 1936

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
Sinclair Lewisprimary100%350.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 4, 1935 on the timeline →
  1. #1It Can't Happen HereSinclair Lewis
  2. #2EuropaRobert Briffault
  3. #3Vein of IronEllen Glasgow
  4. #4The Garden Murder CaseS. S. Van Dine
  5. #5Butterfield 8John O'Hara
  6. #6HandsCharles G. Norris
  7. #7The Stars Look DownA. J. Cronin
  8. #8Spring Came on ForeverB. S. Aldrich