Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alexander Laing
Charting Jan 29, 1934 → Jan 29, 1934 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.30%
- week of Jan 29, 1934
- Career Power
- 3
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 3
- February 1933 – January 1934
- Peak Five Years
- 3
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Jan 29, 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 · 3 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 Cadaverwith Gideon Wyck | #8 | 1 | 2.8 |
At their peak
1933 in books →Alexander Laing's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1933 to January 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Hervey Allen445
- 2Sinclair Lewis164
- 3Gladys Hasty Carroll129
- 4Hans Fallada115
- 5John Galsworthy100
- 6Margaret Ayer Barnes76
- 7Robert Nathan73
- 8Thorne Smith64
- 9Louis Bromfield62
- 10Guy Endore53
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.