Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

A Charmed Life

Mary McCarthy

Entered Nov 27, 1955 · peaked at #9 on Dec 4, 1955 · 10 weeks on the list, last seen Jan 29, 1956

Book Power
38.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
10
November 1955 – January 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
Mary McCarthyprimary100%38.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 4, 1955 on the timeline →
  1. #1Marjorie MorningstarHerman Wouk
  2. #2Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  3. #3AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
  4. #4The Man in the Gray Flannel SuitSloan Wilson
  5. #5The TontineThomas B. Costain
  6. #6CASH McCALLCameron Hawley
  7. #7The Deer ParkNorman Mailer
  8. #8Something of ValueRobert Ruark
  9. #9A Charmed LifeMary McCarthy
  10. #10Bonjour TristesseFrancoise Sagan