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Helen Reilly

Charting May 24, 1937Jul 12, 1937 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.77%
week of Jul 12, 1937
Career Power
37
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
37
July 1936 – July 1937
Peak Five Years
37
July 1932 – July 1937
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of May 24, 1937
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 · 37 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.

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At their peak

1936 in books

Helen Reilly's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1936 to July 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell668
  2. 2Walter D. Edmonds488
  3. 3Somerset Maugham177
  4. 4Virginia Woolf166
  5. 5Aldous Huxley149
  6. 6Lloyd C. Douglas142
  7. 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
  8. 8Hervey Allen133
  9. 9Millen Brand131
  10. 10John P. Marquand125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.