Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gaudy Night
Entered Mar 2, 1936 · peaked at #4 on Mar 9, 1936 · 8 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 20, 1936
- Book Power
- 61.8
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 8
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 8
- March 1936 – April 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.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy L. Sayers | primary | 100% | 61.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Mar 9, 1936 on the timeline →- #1The Last PuritanGeorge Santayana
- #2It Can't Happen HereSinclair Lewis
- #3The HurricaneCharles Nordloff & James Norman Hall
- #4Gaudy NightDorothy L. Sayers
- #5The ExilePearl S. Buck
- #6Faster! Faster!E. M. Delafield
- #7CosmopolitansSomerset Maugham