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May Flavin

Myron Brinig

Entered Jul 4, 1938 · 2 weeks on the list, last seen Jul 11, 1938

Book Power
15.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#5
1 week there · Jul 4, 1938
Top-ten weeks
2
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
2
July 1938 – July 1938

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
Myron Brinigprimary100%15.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 4, 1938 on the timeline →
  1. #1The YearlingMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  2. #2My Son, My Son!Howard Spring
  3. #3The Mortal StormPhyllis Bottome
  4. #4The CitadelA. J. Cronin
  5. #5May FlavinMyron Brinig
  6. #6The Dark RiverCharles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
  7. #7Northwest PassageKenneth Roberts
  8. #8Towers in the MistElizabeth Goudge

The #1 bestsellers of 1938

1938 in books

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1938.