Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Three O'Clock Dinner
Entered Oct 14, 1945 · peaked at #5 on Nov 18, 1945 · 13 weeks on the list, last seen Jan 6, 1946
- Book Power
- 67.1
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 9
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 13
- October 1945 – January 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josephine Pinckney | primary | 100% | 67.1 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Nov 18, 1945 on the timeline →- #1The Black RoseThomas B. Costain
- #2Cass TimberlaneSinclair Lewis
- #3The White TowerJames Ramsey Ullman
- #4The Peacock Sheds His TailAlice Tisdale Hobart
- #5Three O'Clock DinnerJosephine Pinckney
- #6So Well RememberedJames Hilton
- #7A Lion Is in the StreetsAdria Locke Langley
- #8Captain from CastilleSamuel Shellaburger
- #9Forever AmberKathleen Winsor
- #10The ManateeNancy Bruff