Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The City and the Pillar

Gore Vidal

Entered Feb 8, 1948 · peaked at #7 on Feb 29, 1948 · 8 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 18, 1948

Book Power
24.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
8
February 1948 – April 1948

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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
Gore Vidalprimary100%24.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 29, 1948 on the timeline →
  1. #1House DividedBen Ames Williams
  2. #2East Side, West SideMarcia Davenport
  3. #3Raintree CountyRoss Lockridge
  4. #4Eagle in the SkyF. Van Wyck Mason
  5. #5Came a CavalierFrances Parkinson Keyes
  6. #6A Light in the WindowMary Roberts Rinehart
  7. #7The City and the PillarGore Vidal
  8. #8UnconqueredNeil H. Swanson
  9. #9The Bishop's MantleAgnes Sligh Turnbull
  10. #10The MoneymanThomas B. Costain