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KISS Me Again, Stranger

Daphne Du Maurier

Entered Mar 29, 1953 · 24 weeks on the list, last seen Sep 13, 1953

Book Power
142.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#4
4 weeks there · first May 10, 1953
Top-ten weeks
19
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
24
March 1953 – September 1953

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
Daphne Du Maurierprimary100%142.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 10, 1953 on the timeline →
  1. #1DesireeAnnemarie Selinko
  2. #2The Silver ChaliceThomas B. Costain
  3. #3Golden AdmiralFrancis Van Wyck Mason
  4. #4KISS Me Again, StrangerDaphne Du Maurier
  5. #5Prince BartJay Richard Kennedy
  6. #6Hotel TallyrandPaul Hyde Bonner
  7. #7Steamboat GothicFrances Parkinson Keyes
  8. #8East of EdenJohn Steinbeck
  9. #9The Caine MutinyHerman Wouk
  10. #10Corpus of Joe BaileyOakley Hall

The #1 bestsellers of 1953

1953 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1953.