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Angela Mackail Thirkell

Charting Feb 22, 1948Nov 2, 1952 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.68%
week of Nov 2, 1952
Career Power
18
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
10
December 1947 – November 1948
Peak Five Years
18
November 1947 – November 1952
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of Feb 22, 1948
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

3 books · 18 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Private Enterprise#1237.7
Happy Return#1337.5
Love Among the Ruins#1412.4

At their peak

1947 in books

Angela Mackail Thirkell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1947 to November 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Norman Mailer366
  2. 2Ben Ames Williams302
  3. 3Ross Lockridge301
  4. 4Marcia Davenport245
  5. 5Elizabeth Goudge235
  6. 6F. Van Wyck Mason212
  7. 7Agnes Sligh Turnbull196
  8. 8Frances Parkinson Keyes195
  9. 9Frank Yerby182
  10. 10A. J. Cronin179

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.