Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

A Prayer for My Son

Hugh Walpole

Entered Oct 26, 1936 · peaked at #3 on Nov 9, 1936 · 8 weeks on the list, last seen Jan 4, 1937

Book Power
64.5
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
October 1936 – January 1937

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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
Hugh Walpoleprimary100%64.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 9, 1936 on the timeline →
  1. #1Gone with the WindMargaret Mitchell
  2. #2Drums Along the MohawkWalter D. Edmonds
  3. #3A Prayer for My SonHugh Walpole
  4. #4White BannersLloyd C. Douglas
  5. #5File on Bolitho BlaneDennis Wheatley & J. H. Links
  6. #6Anthony AdverseHervey Allen
  7. #7The Kidnap Murder CaseS. S. Van Dine
  8. #8Absalom, AbsalomWilliam Faulkner