Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Charles G. Norris
Charting May 29, 1933 → Oct 3, 1938 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.51%
- week of Nov 18, 1935
- Career Power
- 78
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 33
- December 1934 – December 1935
- Peak Five Years
- 56
- October 1933 – October 1938
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of May 29, 1933
- Comebacks
- 2
- Nov 1935 · Sep 1938
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 · 78 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hands | #6 | 5 | 32.7 | ||
| Bricks Without Straw | #5 | 3 | 23.0 | ||
| Zest | #3 | 2 | 22.0 |
At their peak
1934 in books →Charles G. Norris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1934 to December 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas336
- 2James Hilton281
- 3Thomas Wolfe267
- 4Franz Werfel223
- 5Robert Briffault181
- 6Humphrey Cobb168
- 7Edna Ferber156
- 8Ellen Glasgow155
- 9Thornton Wilder148
- 10Mazo de la Roche143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.