Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Set This House on Fire
Entered Jun 26, 1960 · peaked at #8 on Jul 3, 1960 · 14 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 25, 1960
- Book Power
- 50.3
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 5
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 14
- June 1960 – September 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 Styron | primary | 100% | 50.3 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jul 3, 1960 on the timeline →- #1Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
- #2HawaiiJames A. Michener
- #3The LeopardGuiseppe di Lampedusa
- #4The Chapman ReportIrving Wallace
- #5The Constant ImageMarcia Davenport
- #6The AffairC.P. Snow
- #7Trustee from the ToolroomNevil Shute
- #8Set This House on FireWilliam Styron
- #9The Lincoln LordsCameron Hawley
- #10The View from the Fortieth FloorTheodore H. White