Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Double Muscadine

Frances Gaither

Entered Mar 27, 1949 · peaked at #7 on May 1, 1949 · 12 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 19, 1949

Book Power
45.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
12
March 1949 – June 1949

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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
Frances Gaitherprimary100%45.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 1, 1949 on the timeline →
  1. #1Point of No ReturnJohn P. Marquand
  2. #2The Big FishermanLloyd C. Douglas
  3. #3Dinner at Antoine'sFrances Parkinson Keyes
  4. #4Cutlass EmpireF. Van Wyck Mason
  5. #5The ChainPaul I. Wellman
  6. #6The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer
  7. #7Double MuscadineFrances Gaither
  8. #8The Young LionsIrwin Shaw
  9. #9Lucifer with a BookJohn Horne Burns
  10. #10High TowersThomas B. Costain