Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 1.8
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #16
- 1 week there · Feb 13, 1955
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 1
- February 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Beaty | primary | 100% | 1.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Feb 13, 1955 on the timeline →- #1The View from Pompey's HeadHamilton Basso
- #2No Time for SergeantsMac Hyman
- #3Love Is EternalIrving Stone
- #4KatherineAnya Seton
- #5TrialDon M. Mankiewicz
- #6Hadrian's MemoirsMarguerite Yourcenar
- #7My Brother's KeeperMarcia Davenport
- #8Not as a StrangerMorton Thompson
- #9Soldier of FortuneErnest Kellogg Gann
- #10Pray for a Brave HeartHelen MacInnes
The #1 bestsellers of 1955
1955 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1955.
- The View from Pompey's Head · Hamilton Basso
- Sincerely, Willis Wayde · John Phillips Marquand
- Bonjour Tristesse · Francoise Sagan
- Something of Value · Robert Ruark
- Auntie Mame · Patrick Dennis
- Marjorie Morningstar · Herman Wouk