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Booth Tarkington

Charting Feb 8, 1932 → Feb 17, 1936 · 14 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
7 crowns
19321936
Longest reign 7 weeks (Feb–Mar 1932) · First crown Feb 1932

Peak Power: 9.10%; week of Apr 4, 1932
Career Power: 161; share-weeks
Crowns: 7; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 127; October 1931 – November 1932
Peak Five Years: 161; October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks: 9; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 14; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Feb 15, 1932
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

3 books · 161 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
Mary's Neck	#1February 1932	9	February 1932 – April 1932	127.0	127.0
The Lorenzo Bunch	#6February 1936	4	January 1936 – February 1936	27.2	27.2
Little Orvie	#7December 1934	1	December 1934	6.7	6.3

At their peak

1931 in books →

Booth Tarkington's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1931 to November 1932. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.