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A. A. Milne portraitA. A. Milne

Charting Nov 16, 1931Sep 22, 1946 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.38%
week of Dec 14, 1931
Career Power
49
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
47
October 1931 – November 1932
Peak Five Years
47
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Nov 16, 1931
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

2 books · 49 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Two People#2447.3
Chloe Marr#1611.8

At their peak

1931 in books

A. A. Milne's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1931 to November 1932. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Charles Morgan245
  2. 2Pearl S. Buck213
  3. 3Booth Tarkington127
  4. 4John Galsworthy125
  5. 5Louis Golding94
  6. 6Ellen Glasgow94
  7. 7Julia Peterkin60
  8. 8Margaret Ayer Barnes58
  9. 9Phyllis Bentley55
  10. 10William McFee54

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.