Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Poorhouse Fair
Entered Feb 8, 1959 · peaked at #14 on Feb 8, 1959 · 2 weeks on the list, last seen Mar 8, 1959
- Book Power
- 4.8
- 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
- 2
- February 1959 – March 1959
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 Updike | primary | 100% | 4.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Feb 8, 1959 on the timeline →- #1Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
- #2LolitaVladimir Nabokov
- #3ExodusLeon Uris
- #4From the TerraceJohn O'Hara
- #5The Ugly AmericanWilliam J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
- #6Around the World with Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
- #7Lady L.Romain Gary
- #8Anatomy of a MurderRobert Traver
- #9VictorineFrances Parkinson Keyes
- #10Women and Thomas HarrowJohn P. Marquand