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Viña Delmar

Entered Apr 22, 1956 · 6 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 10, 1956

Book Power
12.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#14
3 weeks there · first Apr 29, 1956
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
6
April 1956 – June 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
Viña Delmarprimary100%12.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 29, 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. #5Imperial WomanPearl S. Buck
  6. #6Lucy CrownIrwin Shaw
  7. #7Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  8. #8Island in the SunAlec Waugh
  9. #9The Man in the Gray Flannel SuitSloan Wilson
  10. #10H.M.S. UlyssesAlistair MacLean

The #1 bestsellers of 1956

1956 in books →

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