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The Bird in the Tree

Elizabeth Goudge

Entered May 27, 1940 · 6 weeks on the list, last seen Jul 1, 1940

Book Power
46.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#5
3 weeks there · first May 27, 1940
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
6
May 1940 – July 1940

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
Elizabeth Goudgeprimary100%46.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 27, 1940 on the timeline →
  1. #1How Green Was My ValleyRichard Llewellyn
  2. #2Night in BombayLouis Bromfield
  3. #3King's RowHenry Bellamann
  4. #4Mrs. SkeffingtonElizabeth von Arnim
  5. #5The Bird in the TreeElizabeth Goudge
  6. #6Chad HannaWalter D. Edmonds
  7. #7Native SonRichard Wright

The #1 bestsellers of 1940

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Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1940.