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Faster! Faster!

E. M. Delafield

Entered Feb 24, 1936 · 4 weeks on the list, last seen Mar 16, 1936

Book Power
32.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#4
1 week there · Mar 16, 1936
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
4
February 1936 – March 1936

Ranked by Book Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a list published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the list.

What it earned each author

Book Power is the book's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each author's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the author had other books charting is split between them.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
E. M. Delafieldprimary100%32.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 16, 1936 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Last PuritanGeorge Santayana
  2. #2The HurricaneCharles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
  3. #3It Can't Happen HereSinclair Lewis
  4. #4Faster! Faster!E. M. Delafield
  5. #5Gaudy NightDorothy L. Sayers
  6. #6The House in ParisElizabeth Bowen
  7. #7The ExilePearl S. Buck
  8. #8The Thinking ReedRebecca West

The #1 bestsellers of 1936

1936 in books

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1936.