Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
A Tale for Midnight
Entered Aug 14, 1955 · peaked at #16 on Aug 14, 1955 · 2 weeks on the list, last seen Aug 21, 1955
- Book Power
- 3.6
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 2
- August 1955 – 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederic Prokosch | primary | 100% | 3.6 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Aug 14, 1955 on the timeline →- #1Bonjour TristesseFrancoise Sagan
- #2Something of ValueRobert Ruark
- #3Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
- #4The Flower GirlsClemence Dane
- #5Excelsior!Paul Hyde Bonner
- #6No Time for SergeantsMac Hyman
- #7The Man in the Gray Flannel SuitSloan Wilson
- #8Not as a StrangerMorton Thompson
- #9Officers and GentlemenEvelyn Waugh
- #10The Dinner PartyGretchen Finletter