Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Imperial Woman
Entered Apr 15, 1956 · peaked at #2 on May 13, 1956 · 24 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 30, 1956
- Book Power
- 186.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 19
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 24
- April 1956 – September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pearl S. Buck | primary | 100% | 186.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 13, 1956 on the timeline →- #1The Last HurrahEdwin O'Connor
- #2Imperial WomanPearl S. Buck
- #3Lucy CrownIrwin Shaw
- #4Ten North FrederickJohn O'Hara
- #5AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
- #6The Quiet AmericanGraham Greene
- #7Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
- #8The Man in the Gray Flannel SuitSloan Wilson
- #9Remember the HouseSantha Rama Rau
- #10Island in the SunAlec Waugh