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Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor

Entered Nov 6, 1955 · 52 weeks on the list, last seen Oct 28, 1956

Book Power
528.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#1
12 weeks there · first Jan 1, 1956
Top-ten weeks
48
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
52
November 1955 – October 1956

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
MacKinlay Kantorprimary100%528.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 1, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
  2. #2Marjorie MorningstarHerman Wouk
  3. #3Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  4. #4CASH McCALLCameron Hawley
  5. #5Ten North FrederickJohn O'Hara
  6. #6The TontineThomas B. Costain
  7. #7The Man in the Gray Flannel SuitSloan Wilson
  8. #8An Episode of SparrowsRumer Godden
  9. #9Something of ValueRobert Ruark
  10. #10A Charmed LifeMary McCarthy

The #1 bestsellers of 1956

1956 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1956.