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Ivy Compton-Burnett

Charting Jun 26, 1949Jul 3, 1949 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.38%
week of Jul 3, 1949
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
July 1948 – July 1949
Peak Five Years
4
July 1944 – July 1949
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.82%
week of Jun 26, 1949
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 · 4 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
Two Worlds and Their Ways#1623.6

At their peak

1948 in books

Ivy Compton-Burnett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1948 to July 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Norman Mailer525
  2. 2Lloyd C. Douglas425
  3. 3Frances Parkinson Keyes327
  4. 4Irwin Shaw304
  5. 5John P. Marquand217
  6. 6A. J. Cronin203
  7. 7Carl Sandburg165
  8. 8Betty Smith162
  9. 9Evelyn Waugh154
  10. 10Frank Yerby149

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.