Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 2.4
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 1
- November 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pat Frank | primary | 100% | 2.4 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Nov 7, 1948 on the timeline →- #1The Young LionsIrwin Shaw
- #2The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer
- #3Tomorrow Will Be BetterBetty Smith
- #4Remembrance RockCarl Sandburg
- #5Toward the MorningHervey Allen
- #6Shannon's WayA. J. Cronin
- #7The Running of the TideEsther Forbes
- #8The CrusadersStefan Heym
- #9The Cleft RockAlice Tisdale Hobart
- #10The Old Beauty and OthersWilla Cather