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Anna Seghers portraitAnna Seghers

Charting Oct 5, 1942Dec 28, 1942 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.83%
week of Nov 2, 1942
Career Power
72
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
72
January 1942 – December 1942
Peak Five Years
72
January 1938 – December 1942
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Oct 5, 1942
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

1 book · 72 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 Seventh Cross#3771.7

At their peak

1942 in books

Anna Seghers's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1942 to December 1942. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Franz Werfel400
  2. 2Pearl S. Buck239
  3. 3John Steinbeck234
  4. 4Rachel Field233
  5. 5Mary Ellen Chase175
  6. 6Nancy Hale155
  7. 7Helen MacInnes135
  8. 8Marcia Davenport110
  9. 9Louis Bromfield109
  10. 10Marguerite Steen109

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.