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Captain for Elizabeth

Jan Westcott

Entered Dec 5, 1948 · 5 weeks on the list, last seen Jan 9, 1949

Book Power
11.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#11
1 week there · Jan 9, 1949
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
5
December 1948 – January 1949

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
Jan Westcottprimary100%11.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 9, 1949 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Big FishermanLloyd C. Douglas
  2. #2Dinner at Antoine'sFrances Parkinson Keyes
  3. #3The Young LionsIrwin Shaw
  4. #4Remembrance RockCarl Sandburg
  5. #5The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer
  6. #6The Running of the TideEsther Forbes
  7. #7CatalinaW. Somerset Maugham
  8. #8Roanoke HundredInglis Clark Fletcher
  9. #9Doctor FaustusThomas Mann
  10. #10The Hearth and EagleAnya Seton

The #1 bestsellers of 1949

1949 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1949.