Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 56.4
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #3
- 1 week there · Jan 10, 1938
- Top-ten weeks
- 7
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 7
- December 1937 – February 1938
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James M. Cain | primary | 100% | 56.4 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jan 10, 1938 on the timeline →The #1 bestsellers of 1938
1938 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1938.
- The Citadel · A. J. Cronin
- The Prodigal Parents · Sinclair Lewis
- Action at Aquila · Hervey Allen
- The Yearling · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- My Son, My Son! · Howard Spring
- Rebecca · Daphne Du Maurier
- All This and Heaven Too · Rachel Field