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Auntie Mame

Patrick Dennis

Entered Feb 20, 1955 · 112 weeks on the list, last seen May 5, 1957

Book Power
890.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#1
5 weeks there · first Aug 28, 1955
Top-ten weeks
96
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
112
February 1955 – May 1957

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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Patrick Dennisprimary100%890.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 28, 1955 on the timeline →
  1. #1Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  2. #2Bonjour TristesseFrancoise Sagan
  3. #3Something of ValueRobert Ruark
  4. #4The Man in the Gray Flannel SuitSloan Wilson
  5. #5The Flower GirlsClemence Dane
  6. #6Excelsior!Paul Hyde Bonner
  7. #7No Time for SergeantsMac Hyman
  8. #8Not as a StrangerMorton Thompson
  9. #9The Dinner PartyGretchen Finletter
  10. #10Grandfather StoriesSamuel Hopkins Adams

The #1 bestsellers of 1955

1955 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1955.