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The Light in the Piazza

Elizabeth Spencer

Entered Jan 15, 1961 · 3 weeks on the list, last seen Feb 19, 1961

Book Power
6.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#14
1 week there · Jan 29, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
3
January 1961 – February 1961

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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
Elizabeth Spencerprimary100%6.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 29, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1HawaiiJames A. Michener
  2. #2Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
  3. #3The Last of the JustAndre Schwarz-Bart
  4. #4To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
  5. #5Sermons and Soda WaterJohn O'Hara
  6. #6Decision at DelphiHelen MacInnes
  7. #7The Dean's WatchElizabeth Goudge
  8. #8Pomp and CircumstanceNoel Coward
  9. #9The Lovely AmbitionMary Ellen Chase
  10. #10The LeopardGuiseppe di Lampedusa

The #1 bestsellers of 1961

1961 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1961.