Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Shanghai '37
Entered Aug 28, 1939 · peaked at #5 on Sep 4, 1939 · 2 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 4, 1939
- Book Power
- 14.7
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 2
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 2
- August 1939 – September 1939
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vicki Baum | primary | 100% | 14.7 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Sep 4, 1939 on the timeline →- #1The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck
- #2Black NarcissusRumer Godden
- #3Christ in ConcretePietro di Donato
- #4The Web and the RockThomas Wolfe
- #5Shanghai '37Vicki Baum
- #6Children of GodVardis Fisher