Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 1.8
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #16
- 1 week there · Aug 15, 1948
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 1
- August 1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Van Gelder | primary | 100% | 1.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Aug 15, 1948 on the timeline →- #1The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer
- #2The Loved OneEvelyn Waugh
- #3MelissaTaylor Caldwell
- #4Shannon's WayA. J. Cronin
- #5The Heart of the MatterGraham Greene
- #6Pilgrim's InnElizabeth Goudge
- #7The Golden HawkFrank Yerby
- #8PeonyPearl S. Buck
- #9Asylum for the QueenMildred Jordan
- #10The Flames of TimeBaynard Kendrick
The #1 bestsellers of 1948
1948 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1948.
- House Divided · Ben Ames Williams
- East Side, West Side · Marcia Davenport
- Eagle in the Sky · F. Van Wyck Mason
- The Ides of March · Thornton Wilder
- Raintree County · Ross Lockridge
- Pilgrim's Inn · Elizabeth Goudge
- The Naked and the Dead · Norman Mailer
- Shannon's Way · A. J. Cronin
- The Young Lions · Irwin Shaw
- The Big Fisherman · Lloyd C. Douglas