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Rumer Godden portraitRumer Godden

Charting Jul 31, 1939 → Feb 22, 1970 · 127 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.94%
week of Oct 9, 1939
Career Power
716
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
118
March 1969 – February 1970
Peak Five Years
217
August 1956 – August 1961
Top-five weeks
21
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
127
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Aug 14, 1939
Comebacks
6
Jul 1953, after 14 quiet years · Jan 1956 · May 1958 · Apr 1961 · Nov 1963 · Nov 1969, after 6 quiet years

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

11 books · 716 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
In This House of Brede#419117.8
Black Narcissus#211111.4
The Greengage Summer#521110.1
China Court#521106.9
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita#51490.5
Kingfishers Catch Fire#51784.8
An Episode of Sparrows#81667.0
A Candle for St. Jude#12410.8
Gypsy, Gypsy#518.3
A Breath of Air#1126.0
The River#1312.8

At their peak

1969 in books →

Rumer Godden's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1969 to February 1970. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Mario Puzo613
  2. 2Philip Roth457
  3. 3Jacqueline Susann384
  4. 4Michael Crichton234
  5. 5Daphne Du Maurier218
  6. 6Helen MacInnes200
  7. 7Vladimir Nabokov160
  8. 8John Fowles156
  9. 9Arthur Hailey137
  10. 10Alistair MacLean134

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.