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A. J. Cronin

Charting May 2, 1932 → Dec 13, 1964 · 259 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year: 1938

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
70 crowns
19321964
Longest reign 16 weeks (Dec 1944 – Apr 1945) · First crown Oct 1937

Peak Power: 13.94%; week of May 9, 1938
Career Power: 2,618; share-weeks
Crowns: 70; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 636; September 1937 – September 1938
Peak Five Years: 1,129; March 1937 – March 1942
Top-five weeks: 188; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 259; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Oct 4, 1937
Comebacks: 8; Oct 1935 · Sep 1937 · Aug 1941 · Jan 1945 · Sep 1948 · Nov 1950 · Sep 1953 · Jul 1956

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

13 books · 2,618 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.

Title	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Book Power
The Citadel	#1October 1937	60	September 1937 – December 1938	718.7	718.7
The Keys of the Kingdom	#1August 1941	31	July 1941 – March 1942	410.3	410.3
The Green Years	#1December 1944	28	December 1944 – June 1945	375.4	375.4
Beyond This Place	#1October 1953	34	August 1953 – March 1954	366.0	366.0
Shannon's Way	#1September 1948	23	August 1948 – January 1949	203.2	203.2
A Thing of Beauty	#2July 1956	21	June 1956 – October 1956	173.0	173.0
The Spanish Gardener	#4October 1950	17	September 1950 – January 1951	111.0	111.0
The Stars Look Down	#2October 1935	10	September 1935 – December 1935	85.4	85.4
The Northern Light	#5July 1958	14	June 1958 – September 1958	70.9	70.9
The Judas Tree	#8December 1961	15	November 1961 – February 1962	55.6	55.6
Grand Canary	#2May 1933	2	May 1933 – May 1933	23.7	23.7
Three Loves	#2May 1932	1	May 1932	12.7	12.7
A Song of Sixpence	#10November 1964	3	November 1964 – December 1964	12.5	12.5

At their peak

1937 in books →

A. J. Cronin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1937 to September 1938. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.