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Storm in the Village

Miss Read

Entered Mar 29, 1959 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
2.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#14
1 week there · Mar 29, 1959
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Miss Readprimary100%2.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 29, 1959 on the timeline →
  1. #1Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
  2. #2ExodusLeon Uris
  3. #3The Ugly AmericanWilliam J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
  4. #4LolitaVladimir Nabokov
  5. #5From the TerraceJohn O'Hara
  6. #6Mrs. Arris Goes to ParisPaul Gallico
  7. #7Lady L.Romain Gary
  8. #8Mrs. BridgeEvan Connell
  9. #9The Watch That Ends the NightHugh MacLennan
  10. #10The Devil in Bucks CountyEdmund Schiddel

The #1 bestsellers of 1959

1959 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1959.