Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Night in Bombay
Entered May 20, 1940 · peaked at #2 on May 20, 1940 · 13 weeks on the list, last seen Aug 12, 1940
- Book Power
- 136.3
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 13
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 13
- May 1940 – August 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Bromfield | primary | 100% | 136.3 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 20, 1940 on the timeline →- #1How Green Was My ValleyRichard Llewellyn
- #2Night in BombayLouis Bromfield
- #3King's RowHenry Bellamann
- #4Mrs. SkeffingtonElizabeth von Arnim
- #5Chad HannaWalter D. Edmonds
- #6When the WhippoorwillMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings