Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 183.1
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #1
- 5 weeks there · first Oct 9, 1939
- Top-ten weeks
- 16
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 16
- October 1939 – January 1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethel Vance | primary | 100% | 183.1 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Oct 9, 1939 on the timeline →The #1 bestsellers of 1939
1939 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1939.
- All This and Heaven Too · Rachel Field
- Rebecca · Daphne Du Maurier
- Wickford Point · John P. Marquand
- The Grapes of Wrath · John Steinbeck
- Kitty Foyle · Christopher Morley
- The Nazarene · Sholem Asch
- Moment in Peking · Lin Yutang