Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 3.9
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #15
- 1 week there · May 10, 1953
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 2
- April 1953 – May 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.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard A. Wright | primary | 100% | 3.9 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 10, 1953 on the timeline →- #1DesireeAnnemarie Selinko
- #2The Silver ChaliceThomas B. Costain
- #3Golden AdmiralFrancis Van Wyck Mason
- #4KISS Me Again, StrangerDaphne Du Maurier
- #5Prince BartJay Richard Kennedy
- #6Hotel TallyrandPaul Hyde Bonner
- #7Steamboat GothicFrances Parkinson Keyes
- #8East of EdenJohn Steinbeck
- #9The Caine MutinyHerman Wouk
- #10Corpus of Joe BaileyOakley Hall
The #1 bestsellers of 1953
1953 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1953.
- The Silver Chalice · Thomas B. Costain
- East of Eden · John Steinbeck
- Desiree · Annemarie Selinko
- Beyond This Place · A. J. Cronin
- Lord Vanity · Samuel Shellabarger