Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 44.9
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #10
- 7 weeks there · first Dec 6, 1959
- Top-ten weeks
- 7
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 13
- November 1959 – February 1960
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Faulkner | primary | 100% | 44.9 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Dec 6, 1959 on the timeline →- #1Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
- #2ExodusLeon Uris
- #3Poor No MoreRobert Ruark
- #4The War LoverJohn Hersey
- #5Dear and Glorious PhysicianTaylor Caldwell
- #6The Darkness and the DawnThomas B. Costain
- #7The Ugly AmericanWilliam J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
- #8HawaiiJames A. Michener
- #9The Devil's AdvocateMorris L. West
- #10The MansionWilliam Faulkner
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