Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Giant

Edna Ferber

Entered Oct 12, 1952 · peaked at #2 on Nov 16, 1952 · 27 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 19, 1953

Book Power
235.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
23
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
27
October 1952 – April 1953

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
Edna Ferberprimary100%235.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 16, 1952 on the timeline →
  1. #1East of EdenJohn Steinbeck
  2. #2GiantEdna Ferber
  3. #3The Silver ChaliceThomas B. Costain
  4. #4The Caine MutinyHerman Wouk
  5. #5The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
  6. #6The Houses in BetweenHoward Spring
  7. #7Men at ArmsEvelyn Waugh
  8. #8Queen's GiftInglis Clark Fletcher
  9. #9Don Camillo and His FlockGiovannino Guareschi
  10. #10Prisoner of GraceJoyce Cary