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In the Blazing Light

Max White

Entered Feb 3, 1946 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
1.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#16
1 week there · Feb 3, 1946
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
February 1946

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
Max Whiteprimary100%1.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 3, 1946 on the timeline →
  1. #1The King's GeneralDaphne Du Maurier
  2. #2The Black RoseThomas B. Costain
  3. #3Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh
  4. #4The River RoadFrances Parkinson Keyes
  5. #5The White TowerJames Ramsey Ullman
  6. #6Forever AmberKathleen Winsor
  7. #7Cass TimberlaneSinclair Lewis
  8. #8The Peacock Sheds His TailAlice Tisdale Hobart
  9. #9The FountainheadAyn Rand
  10. #10The GauntletJames H. Street

The #1 bestsellers of 1946

1946 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1946.