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What Did It Mean?

Angela Thirkell

Entered Nov 7, 1954 · 2 weeks on the list, last seen Nov 14, 1954

Book Power
3.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#16
2 weeks there · first Nov 7, 1954
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
2
November 1954 – November 1954

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 Thirkellprimary100%3.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 7, 1954 on the timeline →
  1. #1Love Is EternalIrving Stone
  2. #2Mary AnneDaphne Du Maurier
  3. #3Not as a StrangerMorton Thompson
  4. #4KatherineAnya Seton
  5. #5Soldier of FortuneErnest Kellogg Gann
  6. #6No Time for SergeantsMac Hyman
  7. #7The Royal BoxFrances Parkinson Keyes
  8. #8Sweet ThursdayJohn Steinbeck
  9. #9A FableWilliam Faulkner
  10. #10The Fall of a TitanIgor Gouzenko

The #1 bestsellers of 1954

1954 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1954.