Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
A Thing of Beauty
Entered Jun 10, 1956 · peaked at #2 on Jul 22, 1956 · 21 weeks on the list, last seen Oct 28, 1956
- Book Power
- 173.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 21
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 21
- June 1956 – October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. J. Cronin | primary | 100% | 173.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jul 22, 1956 on the timeline →- #1The Last HurrahEdwin O'Connor
- #2A Thing of BeautyA. J. Cronin
- #3The MandarinsSimone de Beauvoir
- #4AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
- #5A Single PebbleJohn Hersey
- #6Imperial WomanPearl S. Buck
- #7Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
- #8A Walk on the Wild SideNelson Algren
- #9The Rosemary TreeElizabeth Goudge
- #10Lucy CrownIrwin Shaw