Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Charles Nordhoff
Charting Nov 14, 1932 → Jan 12, 1942 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.04%
- week of Jan 12, 1942
- Career Power
- 57
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 26
- January 1941 – January 1942
- Peak Five Years
- 31
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Nov 14, 1932
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 1941, after 8 quiet years
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 · 57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botany Baywith James Norman Hall | #5 | 7 | 26.0 | ||
| Men Against the Seawith James N. Hall | #3 | 5 | 22.0 | ||
| Mutiny on the Bountywith James N. Hall | #2 | 2 | 9.1 |
At their peak
1941 in books →Charles Nordhoff's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1941 to January 1942. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Hilton357
- 2A. J. Cronin350
- 3Eric Knight345
- 4Marguerite Steen239
- 5Kenneth Roberts167
- 6J. P. Marquand140
- 7Ellen Glasgow135
- 8Ernest Hemingway129
- 9Edna Ferber119
- 10Marcus Goodrich103
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.