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The Flower Girls

Clemence Dane

Entered Jul 10, 1955 · 17 weeks on the list, last seen Oct 30, 1955

Book Power
112.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#4
4 weeks there · first Jul 31, 1955
Top-ten weeks
13
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
17
July 1955 – October 1955

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
Clemence Daneprimary100%112.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 31, 1955 on the timeline →
  1. #1Bonjour TristesseFrancoise Sagan
  2. #2Something of ValueRobert Ruark
  3. #3Auntie MamePatrick Dennis
  4. #4The Flower GirlsClemence Dane
  5. #5No Time for SergeantsMac Hyman
  6. #6Excelsior!Paul Hyde Bonner
  7. #7Sincerely, Willis WaydeJohn Phillips Marquand
  8. #8The Dinner PartyGretchen Finletter
  9. #9The Wine of YouthRobert Wilder
  10. #10Not as a StrangerMorton Thompson

The #1 bestsellers of 1955

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