Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The View from Pompey's Head
Entered Nov 7, 1954 · peaked at #1 on Jan 2, 1955 · 40 weeks on the list, last seen Aug 7, 1955
- Book Power
- 395.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 14
- weeks on top
- Top-ten weeks
- 33
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 40
- November 1954 – August 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton Basso | primary | 100% | 395.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jan 2, 1955 on the timeline →- #1The View from Pompey's HeadHamilton Basso
- #2Love Is EternalIrving Stone
- #3No Time for SergeantsMac Hyman
- #4KatherineAnya Seton
- #5Soldier of FortuneErnest Kellogg Gann
- #6Not as a StrangerMorton Thompson
- #7My Brother's KeeperMarcia Davenport
- #8Good Morning, Miss DoveFrances Gray Patton
- #9Benton's RowFrank Yerby
- #10Mary AnneDaphne Du Maurier