Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Aldous Huxley
Charting Mar 7, 1932 → Jul 1, 1962 · 41 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyeglass in Gaza | #2 | 14 | 149.1 | ||
| Island | #7 | 11 | 41.9 | ||
| After Many a Summer Dies the Swan | #5 | 3 | 22.9 | ||
| Brave New World | #3 | 2 | 22.0 | ||
| Time Must Have a Stop | #5 | 2 | 16.7 | ||
| Ape and Essence | #9 | 6 | 15.3 | ||
| The Genius and the Goddess | #11 | 3 | 8.2 |
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:
- 1Sinclair Lewis337
- 2George Santayana330
- 3Margaret Mitchell226
- 4Charles Morgan179
- 5Robert Briffault176
- 6Mary Roberts Rinehart151
- 7Aldous Huxley149
- 8Walter D. Edmonds129
- 9Rebecca West112
- 10Vincent Sheean104
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.