Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Edge of Sadness
Entered Jun 25, 1961 · peaked at #3 on Jul 2, 1961 · 28 weeks on the list, last seen Jun 3, 1962
- Book Power
- 193.8
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 21
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 28
- June 1961 – June 1962
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin O'Connor | primary | 100% | 193.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jul 2, 1961 on the timeline →- #1The Agony and the EcstasyIrving Stone
- #2To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
- #3The Edge of SadnessEdwin O'Connor
- #4Mila 18Leon Uris
- #5The Last of the JustAndre Schwarz-Bart
- #6A Burnt-Out CaseGraham Greene
- #7A Shooting StarWallace Stegner
- #8China CourtRumer Godden
- #9A Journey to MatecumbeRobert Lewis Taylor
- #10Tropic of CancerHenry Miller