Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Strange Fruit

Lillian Smith

Entered Mar 26, 1944 · peaked at #1 on Apr 16, 1944 · 32 weeks on the list, last seen Oct 29, 1944

Book Power
429.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
22
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
32
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
32
March 1944 – October 1944

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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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Lillian Smithprimary100%429.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 16, 1944 on the timeline →
  1. #1Strange FruitLillian Smith
  2. #2A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith
  3. #3The RobeLloyd C. Douglas
  4. #4A Bell for AdanoJohn Hersey
  5. #5The Steep AscentAnne Morrow Lindbergh