Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 1.8
- 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
- October 1952
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Winsor | primary | 100% | 1.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Oct 5, 1952 on the timeline →- #1The Silver ChaliceThomas B. Costain
- #2The Caine MutinyHerman Wouk
- #3The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
- #4The Houses in BetweenHoward Spring
- #5MatadorBarnaby Conrad
- #6East of EdenJohn Steinbeck
- #7Don Camillo and His FlockGiovannino Guareschi
- #8The Gown of GloryAgnes Sligh Turnbull
- #9The Distant ShoreJan de Hartog
- #10The Far CountryNevil Shute