Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The Straight and Narrow Path

Honor Tracy

Entered Aug 19, 1956 · peaked at #10 on Sep 16, 1956 · 11 weeks on the list, last seen Jan 20, 1957

Book Power
29.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
11
August 1956 – January 1957

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
Honor Tracyprimary100%29.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 16, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1Don't Go Near the WaterWilliam Brinkley
  2. #2The Last HurrahEdwin O'Connor
  3. #3A Certain SmileFrancoise Sagan
  4. #4The MandarinsSimone de Beauvoir
  5. #5A Thing of BeautyA. J. Cronin
  6. #6A Single PebbleJohn Hersey
  7. #7Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  8. #8AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
  9. #9The Ninth WaveEugene Burdick
  10. #10The Straight and Narrow PathHonor Tracy
The Straight and Narrow Path — Honor Tracy · ChartReign