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Angela Thirkell

Charting Jul 10, 1939Nov 14, 1954 · 29 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.74%
week of Aug 28, 1939
Career Power
124
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
77
September 1938 – August 1939
Peak Five Years
77
September 1934 – August 1939
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jul 17, 1939
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

6 books · 124 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
The Brandons#3877.0
The Old Bank House#13715.9
The Duke's Daughter#12512.9
Country Chronicle#1547.8
Peace Breaks Out#1436.9
What Did It Mean?#1623.6

At their peak

1938 in books

Angela Thirkell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1938 to August 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rachel Field484
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier381
  3. 3John Steinbeck272
  4. 4Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings225
  5. 5Howard Spring196
  6. 6John P. Marquand187
  7. 7F. Van Wyck Mason138
  8. 8Elizabeth Page136
  9. 9Lloyd C. Douglas114
  10. 10Thomas Wolfe109

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.