Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

A Certain Smile

Francoise Sagan

Entered Aug 19, 1956 · peaked at #2 on Sep 23, 1956 · 19 weeks on the list, last seen Dec 23, 1956

Book Power
165.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
16
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
19
August 1956 – December 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
Francoise Saganprimary100%165.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 23, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1Don't Go Near the WaterWilliam Brinkley
  2. #2A Certain SmileFrancoise Sagan
  3. #3The Last HurrahEdwin O'Connor
  4. #4The MandarinsSimone de Beauvoir
  5. #5A Single PebbleJohn Hersey
  6. #6A Thing of BeautyA. J. Cronin
  7. #7Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  8. #8AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
  9. #9The Ninth WaveEugene Burdick
  10. #10Charmed CircleSusan Ertz