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Edward McSorley

Charting Jul 7, 1946Aug 18, 1946 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.87%
week of Aug 18, 1946
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
August 1945 – August 1946
Peak Five Years
11
September 1941 – August 1946
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of Jul 28, 1946
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 · 11 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
Our Own Kind#12511.0

At their peak

1945 in books

Edward McSorley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1945 to August 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain449
  2. 2Erich Maria Remarque283
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier278
  4. 4James Ramsey Ullman245
  5. 5Taylor Caldwell234
  6. 6James Hilton204
  7. 7Sinclair Lewis175
  8. 8Kathleen Winsor171
  9. 9Mary Jane Ward167
  10. 10Adria Locke Langley161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.