Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The Quiet American

Graham Greene

Entered Mar 25, 1956 · peaked at #4 on Apr 22, 1956 · 16 weeks on the list, last seen Jul 15, 1956

Book Power
94.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
12
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
16
March 1956 – July 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
Graham Greeneprimary100%94.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 22, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Last HurrahEdwin O'Connor
  2. #2Ten North FrederickJohn O'Hara
  3. #3AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
  4. #4The Quiet AmericanGraham Greene
  5. #5Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  6. #6Imperial WomanPearl S. Buck
  7. #7Lucy CrownIrwin Shaw
  8. #8Marjorie MorningstarHerman Wouk
  9. #9Island in the SunAlec Waugh
  10. #10CASH McCALLCameron Hawley