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The Balance Wheel

Taylor Caldwell

Entered Jan 21, 1951 · 18 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 3, 1951

Book Power
111.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#3
2 weeks there · first Mar 4, 1951
Top-ten weeks
14
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
18
January 1951 – June 1951

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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Taylor Caldwellprimary100%111.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 4, 1951 on the timeline →
  1. #1Joy StreetFrances Parkinson Keyes
  2. #2The DisenchantedBudd Schulberg
  3. #3The Balance WheelTaylor Caldwell
  4. #4River of the SunJames Ramsey Ullman
  5. #5The DisappearancePhilip Wylie
  6. #6The CardinalHenry Morton Robinson
  7. #7The Loved and EnviedEnid Bagnold
  8. #8FoxfireAnya Seton
  9. #9Son of a Hundred KingsThomas B. Costain
  10. #10The Witch DiggersJessamyn West

The #1 bestsellers of 1951

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Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1951.