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Command the Morning

Pearl S. Buck

Entered Jun 7, 1959 · 3 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 28, 1959

Book Power
6.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#14
2 weeks there · first Jun 7, 1959
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
3
June 1959 – June 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
Pearl S. Buckprimary100%6.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 7, 1959 on the timeline →
  1. #1ExodusLeon Uris
  2. #2Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
  3. #3The Ugly AmericanWilliam J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
  4. #4Dear and Glorious PhysicianTaylor Caldwell
  5. #5Lady Chatterly's LoverD.H. Lawrence
  6. #6LolitaVladimir Nabokov
  7. #7Mrs. Arris Goes to ParisPaul Gallico
  8. #8Nine Coaches WaitingMary Stewart
  9. #9Celia GarthGwen Bristow
  10. #10The Chinese BoxKatherine Wigmore Eyre

The #1 bestsellers of 1959

1959 in books →

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