Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

A Fable

William Faulkner

Entered Aug 22, 1954 · peaked at #4 on Sep 12, 1954 · 15 weeks on the list, last seen Nov 28, 1954

Book Power
100.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
12
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
15
August 1954 – November 1954

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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
William Faulknerprimary100%100.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 12, 1954 on the timeline →
  1. #1Mary AnneDaphne Du Maurier
  2. #2Not as a StrangerMorton Thompson
  3. #3Sweet ThursdayJohn Steinbeck
  4. #4A FableWilliam Faulkner
  5. #5The Royal BoxFrances Parkinson Keyes
  6. #6Love Is EternalIrving Stone
  7. #7Never Victorious, Never DefeatedTaylor Caldwell
  8. #8The Fall of a TitanIgor Gouzenko
  9. #9The DollmakerHarriette Arnow
  10. #10A Time to Love and a Time to DieErich Maria Remarque