Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 449.5
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #1
- 17 weeks there · first Oct 7, 1945
- Top-ten weeks
- 38
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 39
- September 1945 – June 1946
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas B. Costain | primary | 100% | 449.5 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Oct 7, 1945 on the timeline →- #1The Black RoseThomas B. Costain
- #2So Well RememberedJames Hilton
- #3The White TowerJames Ramsey Ullman
- #4A Lion Is in the StreetsAdria Locke Langley
- #5The World, the Flesh and Father SmithBruce Marshall
- #6Captain from CastilleSamuel Shellabarger
- #7Commodore HornblowerC. S. Forester
- #8Rickshaw BoyLau Shaw
- #9Dragon HarvestUpton Sinclair
- #10The Peacock Sheds His TailAlice Tisdale Hobart
The #1 bestsellers of 1945
1945 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1945.
- The Green Years · A. J. Cronin
- Earth and High Heaven · Gwenthalyn Graham
- The Ballad and the Source · Rosamond Lehmann
- Forever Amber · Kathleen Winsor
- Captain from Castille · Samuel Shellabarger
- A Lion Is in the Streets · Adria Locke Langley
- So Well Remembered · James Hilton