Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 2.1
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #15
- 1 week there · Oct 4, 1959
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 1
- October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Dermout | primary | 100% | 2.1 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Oct 4, 1959 on the timeline →- #1Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
- #2ExodusLeon Uris
- #3The Ugly AmericanWilliam J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
- #4Lady Chatterly's LoverD.H. Lawrence
- #5Dear and Glorious PhysicianTaylor Caldwell
- #6The CaveRobert Penn Warren
- #7Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
- #8The Art of Llewellyn JonesPaul Hyde Bonner
- #9California StreetNiven Busch
- #10EvaMeyer Levin
The #1 bestsellers of 1959
1959 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1959.
- Doctor Zhivago · Boris Pasternak
- Exodus · Leon Uris
- Advise and Consent · Allen Drury