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Innocent Summer

Frances Frost

Entered Feb 10, 1936 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
6.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#7
1 week there · Feb 10, 1936
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
February 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
Frances Frostprimary100%6.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 10, 1936 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Last PuritanGeorge Santayana
  2. #2If I Have Four ApplesJosephine Lawrence
  3. #3The Son of MariettaJohan Fabricius
  4. #4The Jew of RomeLion Feuchtwanger
  5. #5It Can't Happen HereSinclair Lewis
  6. #6The Lorenzo BunchBooth Tarkington
  7. #7Innocent SummerFrances Frost
  8. #8Floating PerilE. Phillips Oppenheim

The #1 bestsellers of 1936

1936 in books

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1936.