Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 2.4
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 1
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John O'Hara | primary | 100% | 2.4 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Sep 2, 1956 on the timeline →- #1Don't Go Near the WaterWilliam Brinkley
- #2The Last HurrahEdwin O'Connor
- #3The MandarinsSimone de Beauvoir
- #4A Single PebbleJohn Hersey
- #5A Thing of BeautyA. J. Cronin
- #6A Certain SmileFrancoise Sagan
- #7Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
- #8The Ninth WaveEugene Burdick
- #9AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
- #10Charmed CircleSusan Ertz