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Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Willard Motley

Entered Sep 7, 1958 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
1.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#16
1 week there · Sep 7, 1958
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
September 1958

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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
Willard Motleyprimary100%1.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 7, 1958 on the timeline →
  1. #1Anatomy of a MurderRobert Traver
  2. #2The Enemy CampJerome Weidman
  3. #3The King Must DieMary Renault
  4. #4The Image MakersBernard Dryer
  5. #5Ice PalaceEdna Ferber
  6. #6Around the World with Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  7. #7Strangers When We MeetEvan Hunter
  8. #8The Time of the DragonsAlice Ekert-Rotholz
  9. #9The Winthrop WomanAnya Seton
  10. #10LolitaVladimir Nabokov

The #1 bestsellers of 1958

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Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1958.