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Gilbert Frankau portraitGilbert Frankau

Charting Dec 28, 1936Jan 23, 1939 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.59%
week of Jan 23, 1939
Career Power
51
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
39
January 1938 – January 1939
Peak Five Years
51
February 1934 – January 1939
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Jan 23, 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

3 books · 51 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
Royal Regiment#4326.3
The Dangerous Years#7319.0
Farewell Romance#815.5

At their peak

1938 in books

Gilbert Frankau's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1938 to January 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings486
  2. 2A. J. Cronin456
  3. 3Howard Spring382
  4. 4Daphne Du Maurier227
  5. 5Kenneth Roberts218
  6. 6Phyllis Bottome181
  7. 7Rachel Field174
  8. 8Louis Bromfield123
  9. 9Hervey Allen118
  10. 10Mary Roberts Rinehart99

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.