Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Margery Sharp
Charting Sep 20, 1937 → May 14, 1961 · 62 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.13%
- week of Oct 13, 1946
- Career Power
- 391
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 152
- November 1945 – November 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 228
- September 1943 – August 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 21
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 62
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Aug 11, 1946
- Comebacks
- 4
- Oct 1940 · Oct 1944 · Jul 1946 · Jul 1948
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
10 books · 391 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Britannia Mews | #2 | 17 | 152.2 | ||
| The Nutmeg Tree | #4 | 10 | 74.8 | ||
| The Foolish Gentlewoman | #5 | 11 | 55.5 | ||
| The Gipsy in the Parlour | #8 | 10 | 36.9 | ||
| The Stone of Chastity | #5 | 3 | 22.9 | ||
| Cluny Brown | #3 | 2 | 20.6 | ||
| Harlequin House | #4 | 1 | 9.6 | ||
| The Eye of Love | #13 | 3 | 7.6 | ||
| Something Light | #14 | 3 | 6.0 | ||
| The Rescuers | #11 | 2 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Margery Sharp's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1945 to November 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Taylor Caldwell374
- 2Thomas B. Costain331
- 3Frederic Wakeman306
- 4Erich Maria Remarque283
- 5Daphne Du Maurier278
- 6Mary Jane Ward195
- 7Frank Yerby173
- 8James Ramsey Ullman162
- 9Evelyn Waugh158
- 10Margery Sharp152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.