Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Angela Thirkell
Charting Jul 10, 1939 → Nov 14, 1954 · 29 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Brandons | #3 | 8 | 77.0 | ||
| The Old Bank House | #13 | 7 | 15.9 | ||
| The Duke's Daughter | #12 | 5 | 12.9 | ||
| Country Chronicle | #15 | 4 | 7.8 | ||
| Peace Breaks Out | #14 | 3 | 6.9 | ||
| What Did It Mean? | #16 | 2 | 3.6 |
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:
- 1Rachel Field484
- 2Daphne Du Maurier381
- 3John Steinbeck272
- 4Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings225
- 5Howard Spring196
- 6John P. Marquand187
- 7F. Van Wyck Mason138
- 8Elizabeth Page136
- 9Lloyd C. Douglas114
- 10Thomas Wolfe109
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.