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Madame Solario

Gladys Huntington

Entered Sep 16, 1956 · 3 weeks on the list, last seen Oct 7, 1956

Book Power
9.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#10
1 week there · Sep 30, 1956
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
3
September 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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Gladys Huntingtonprimary100%9.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 30, 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. #8The Ninth WaveEugene Burdick
  9. #9AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
  10. #10Madame SolarioGladys Huntington

The #1 bestsellers of 1956

1956 in books →

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