Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Entered Dec 16, 1940 · 12 weeks on the list, last seen Mar 3, 1941
- Book Power
- 115.2
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #3
- 6 weeks there · first Dec 23, 1940
- Top-ten weeks
- 12
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 12
- December 1940 – March 1941
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willa Cather | primary | 100% | 115.2 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Dec 23, 1940 on the timeline →- #1Oliver WiswellKenneth Roberts
- #2For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway
- #3Sapphira and the Slave GirlWilla Cather
- #4Mrs. MiniverJan Struther
- #5The FamilyNina Fedorova
- #6The VoyageCharles Morgan
The #1 bestsellers of 1940
1940 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1940.
- The Nazarene · Sholem Asch
- Kitty Foyle · Christopher Morley
- How Green Was My Valley · Richard Llewellyn
- Native Son · Richard Wright
- Stars on the Sea · F. Van Wyck Mason
- Mrs. Miniver · Jan Struther
- The Beloved Returns · Thomas Mann
- You Can't Go Home Again · Thomas Wolfe
- For Whom the Bell Tolls · Ernest Hemingway
- Oliver Wiswell · Kenneth Roberts