Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The Forgotten Smile

Margaret Kennedy

Entered May 6, 1962 · peaked at #16 on May 6, 1962 · 2 weeks on the list, last seen May 20, 1962

Book Power
3.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
2
May 1962 – May 1962

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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
Margaret Kennedyprimary100%3.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 6, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1Ship of FoolsKatherine Anne Porter
  2. #2Franny and ZooeyJ.D. Salinger
  3. #3The Fox in the AtticRichard Hughes
  4. #4The Bull from the SeaMary Renault
  5. #5The Agony and the EcstasyIrving Stone
  6. #6Devil WaterAnya Seton
  7. #7A Prologue to LoveTaylor Caldwell
  8. #8Captain Newman, M.D.Leo Calvin Rosten
  9. #9IslandAldous Huxley
  10. #10Chairman of the BoredEdward Streeter