Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Holdfast Gaines
Odell Shepard & Willard Shepard
Entered Dec 8, 1946 · peaked at #5 on Jan 12, 1947 · 15 weeks on the list, last seen Mar 16, 1947
- Book Power
- 82.9
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 11
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 15
- December 1946 – March 1947
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odell Shepard | primary | 50% | 41.4 |
| Willard Shepard | primary | 50% | 41.4 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jan 12, 1947 on the timeline →- #1B.F.'s DAUGHTERJohn P. Marquand
- #2East RiverSholem Asch
- #3The Miracle of the BellsRussell Janney
- #4Pavilion of WomenPearl S. Buck
- #5Holdfast GainesOdell Shepard & Willard Shepard
- #6Green Grass of WyomingMary O'Hara
- #7Thieves in the NightArthur Koestler
- #8Mr. AdamPat Frank
- #9This Side of InnocenceTaylor Caldwell
- #10The Salem FrigateJohn Jennings