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A. P. Herbert portraitA. P. Herbert

Charting Aug 13, 1934Sep 3, 1934 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.00%
week of Sep 3, 1934
Career Power
33
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
33
September 1933 – September 1934
Peak Five Years
33
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Aug 20, 1934
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

1 book · 33 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.

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At their peak

1933 in books

A. P. Herbert's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1933 to September 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen655
  2. 2Caroline Miller212
  3. 3Sinclair Lewis148
  4. 4Robert Graves130
  5. 5John Galsworthy100
  6. 6Margaret Ayer Barnes97
  7. 7Lion Feuchtwanger91
  8. 8Dashiell Hammett84
  9. 9Isak Dinesen83
  10. 10James Joyce81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.