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Charting Apr 13, 1947 → Apr 20, 1947 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.49%
week of Apr 20, 1947
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
5
April 1946 – April 1947
Peak Five Years
5
May 1942 – April 1947
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Apr 13, 1947
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 · 5 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
A Garden to the Eastward#1324.8

At their peak

1946 in books →

Harold Lamb's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1946 to April 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Taylor Caldwell451
  2. 2Frederic Wakeman369
  3. 3Russell Janney306
  4. 4John P. Marquand253
  5. 5Sholem Asch236
  6. 6Mary Jane Ward195
  7. 7Kenneth Roberts186
  8. 8Margery Sharp152
  9. 9John Jennings145
  10. 10Frank Yerby145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.