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We Happy Few

Helen Howe

Entered Jul 21, 1946 · 15 weeks on the list, last seen Nov 3, 1946

Book Power
60.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#5
1 week there · Sep 8, 1946
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
15
July 1946 – November 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
Helen Howeprimary100%60.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 8, 1946 on the timeline →
  1. #1The HuckstersFrederic Wakeman
  2. #2This Side of InnocenceTaylor Caldwell
  3. #3Britannia MewsMargery Sharp
  4. #4RhubarbH. Allen Smith
  5. #5We Happy FewHelen Howe
  6. #6The Salem FrigateJohn Jennings
  7. #7The Snake PitMary Jane Ward
  8. #8The AmericanHoward Fast
  9. #9Bell TimsonMarguerite Steen
  10. #10Then and NowW. Somerset Maugham

The #1 bestsellers of 1946

1946 in books →

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