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Phyllis Bottome

Charting Apr 18, 1938Apr 7, 1946 · 22 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
8.49%
week of Jul 18, 1938
Career Power
211
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
209
March 1938 – February 1939
Peak Five Years
209
March 1934 – February 1939
Top-five weeks
19
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of May 16, 1938
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

3 books · 211 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
The Mortal Storm#218181.3
Danger Signal#4327.5
The Life Line#1611.8

At their peak

1938 in books

Phyllis Bottome's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1938 to February 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings486
  2. 2A. J. Cronin385
  3. 3Howard Spring382
  4. 4Daphne Du Maurier290
  5. 5Rachel Field246
  6. 6Phyllis Bottome209
  7. 7Kenneth Roberts163
  8. 8Hervey Allen118
  9. 9F. Van Wyck Mason114
  10. 10Mary Roberts Rinehart99

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.