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Love Among the Ruins

Angela Mackail Thirkell

Entered Nov 28, 1948 · 1 week on the list

Book Power
2.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#14
1 week there · Nov 28, 1948
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
November 1948

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
Angela Mackail Thirkellprimary100%2.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 28, 1948 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Young LionsIrwin Shaw
  2. #2The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer
  3. #3Remembrance RockCarl Sandburg
  4. #4The Running of the TideEsther Forbes
  5. #5Tomorrow Will Be BetterBetty Smith
  6. #6Shannon's WayA. J. Cronin
  7. #7The Big FishermanLloyd C. Douglas
  8. #8Toward the MorningHervey Allen
  9. #9CatalinaW. Somerset Maugham
  10. #10I Capture the CastleDodie Smith

The #1 bestsellers of 1948

1948 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1948.