Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Light Infantry Ball
Entered Jun 21, 1959 · peaked at #8 on Jul 5, 1959 · 13 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 13, 1959
- Book Power
- 55.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 8
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 13
- June 1959 – September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton Basso | primary | 100% | 55.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jul 5, 1959 on the timeline →- #1ExodusLeon Uris
- #2The Ugly AmericanWilliam J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
- #3Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
- #4Lady Chatterly's LoverD.H. Lawrence
- #5Dear and Glorious PhysicianTaylor Caldwell
- #6Celia GarthGwen Bristow
- #7LolitaVladimir Nabokov
- #8The Light Infantry BallHamilton Basso
- #9Nine Coaches WaitingMary Stewart
- #10The Chinese BoxKatherine Wigmore Eyre