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Aldous Huxley portraitAldous Huxley

Charting Mar 7, 1932Jul 1, 1962 · 41 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
8.30%
week of Oct 5, 1936
Career Power
276
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
149
October 1935 – October 1936
Peak Five Years
172
March 1935 – February 1940
Top-five weeks
17
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
41
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Aug 3, 1936
Comebacks
1
Jul 1936

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

7 books · 276 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
Eyeglass in Gaza#214149.1
Island#71141.9
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan#5322.9
Brave New World#3222.0
Time Must Have a Stop#5216.7
Ape and Essence#9615.3
The Genius and the Goddess#1138.2

At their peak

1935 in books

Aldous Huxley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1935 to October 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Sinclair Lewis337
  2. 2George Santayana330
  3. 3Margaret Mitchell226
  4. 4Charles Morgan179
  5. 5Robert Briffault176
  6. 6Mary Roberts Rinehart151
  7. 7Aldous Huxley149
  8. 8Walter D. Edmonds129
  9. 9Rebecca West112
  10. 10Vincent Sheean104

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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