Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 3.9
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #15
- 1 week there · Feb 12, 1956
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 2
- February 1956 – February 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.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joy Packer | primary | 100% | 3.9 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Feb 12, 1956 on the timeline →- #1AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
- #2Marjorie MorningstarHerman Wouk
- #3Ten North FrederickJohn O'Hara
- #4CASH McCALLCameron Hawley
- #5Boon IslandKenneth Roberts
- #6Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
- #7Island in the SunAlec Waugh
- #8H.M.S. UlyssesAlistair MacLean
- #9The TontineThomas B. Costain
- #10An Episode of SparrowsRumer Godden
The #1 bestsellers of 1956
1956 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1956.
- Andersonville · MacKinlay Kantor
- The Last Hurrah · Edwin O'Connor
- Don't Go Near the Water · William Brinkley
- Peyton Place · Grace Metalious