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Margery Sharp

Charting Sep 20, 1937May 14, 1961 · 62 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Britannia Mews#217152.2
The Nutmeg Tree#41074.8
The Foolish Gentlewoman#51155.5
The Gipsy in the Parlour#81036.9
The Stone of Chastity#5322.9
Cluny Brown#3220.6
Harlequin House#419.6
The Eye of Love#1337.6
Something Light#1436.0
The Rescuers#1125.5

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:

  1. 1Taylor Caldwell374
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain331
  3. 3Frederic Wakeman306
  4. 4Erich Maria Remarque283
  5. 5Daphne Du Maurier278
  6. 6Mary Jane Ward195
  7. 7Frank Yerby173
  8. 8James Ramsey Ullman162
  9. 9Evelyn Waugh158
  10. 10Margery Sharp152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.