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The Merger

Sterling Quinlan

Entered Nov 9, 1958 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
2.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#14
1 week there · Nov 9, 1958
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
November 1958

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
Sterling Quinlanprimary100%2.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 9, 1958 on the timeline →
  1. #1LolitaVladimir Nabokov
  2. #2Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
  3. #3Around the World with Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  4. #4Women and Thomas HarrowJohn P. Marquand
  5. #5Anatomy of a MurderRobert Traver
  6. #6The Best of EverythingRona Jaffe
  7. #7The Enemy CampJerome Weidman
  8. #8ExodusLeon Uris
  9. #9AngeliqueSergeanne Golon
  10. #10The Ugly AmericanWilliam J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick

The #1 bestsellers of 1958

1958 in books →

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