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Band of Angels

Robert Penn Warren

Entered Sep 4, 1955 · 15 weeks on the list, last seen Dec 11, 1955

Book Power
82.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#5
1 week there · Sep 18, 1955
Top-ten weeks
12
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
15
September 1955 – December 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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Robert Penn Warrenprimary100%82.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 18, 1955 on the timeline →
  1. #1Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  2. #2Something of ValueRobert Ruark
  3. #3The Man in the Gray Flannel SuitSloan Wilson
  4. #4Bonjour TristesseFrancoise Sagan
  5. #5Band of AngelsRobert Penn Warren
  6. #6Marjorie MorningstarHerman Wouk
  7. #7The Flower GirlsClemence Dane
  8. #8Grandfather StoriesSamuel Hopkins Adams
  9. #9Not as a StrangerMorton Thompson
  10. #10The Sixth of JuneLionel Shapiro

The #1 bestsellers of 1955

1955 in books →

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