Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Compulsion

Meyer Levin

Entered Nov 18, 1956 · peaked at #2 on Feb 17, 1957 · 54 weeks on the list, last seen Dec 1, 1957

Book Power
466.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
47
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
54
November 1956 – December 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
Meyer Levinprimary100%466.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 17, 1957 on the timeline →
  1. #1Peyton PlaceGrace Metalious
  2. #2CompulsionMeyer Levin
  3. #3The Fountain OverflowsRebecca West
  4. #4The PhiladelphianRichard Powell
  5. #5Don't Go Near the WaterWilliam Brinkley
  6. #6The Tribe That Lost Its HeadNicholas Monsarrat
  7. #7The EtruscanMika Waltari
  8. #8Twilight for the GodsErnest Gann
  9. #9Blue CamelliaFrances Parkinson Keyes
  10. #10Stopover: TokyoJohn P. Marquand