Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Soldier of Fortune
Entered Oct 24, 1954 · 25 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 10, 1955
- Book Power
- 158.6
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #4
- 1 week there · Dec 19, 1954
- Top-ten weeks
- 19
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 25
- October 1954 – April 1955
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ernest Kellogg Gann | primary | 100% | 158.6 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Dec 19, 1954 on the timeline →- #1Love Is EternalIrving Stone
- #2The View from Pompey's HeadHamilton Basso
- #3KatherineAnya Seton
- #4Soldier of FortuneErnest Kellogg Gann
- #5No Time for SergeantsMac Hyman
- #6My Brother's KeeperMarcia Davenport
- #7Mary AnneDaphne Du Maurier
- #8Not as a StrangerMorton Thompson
- #9Good Morning, Miss DoveFrances Gray Patton
- #10Hadrian's MemoirsMarguerite Yourcenar
The #1 bestsellers of 1954
1954 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1954.
- Lord Vanity · Samuel Shellabarger
- Not as a Stranger · Morton Thompson
- Mary Anne · Daphne Du Maurier
- Love Is Eternal · Irving Stone