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Clarence Day portraitClarence Day

Charting Aug 12, 1935Aug 12, 1935 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.79%
week of Aug 12, 1935
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
7
August 1934 – August 1935
Peak Five Years
7
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Aug 12, 1935
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 · 7 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Life with Father#617.3

At their peak

1934 in books

Clarence Day's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1934 to August 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton512
  2. 2Stark Young314
  3. 3Lloyd C. Douglas257
  4. 4Thomas Wolfe243
  5. 5Franz Werfel238
  6. 6Edna Ferber156
  7. 7Thornton Wilder148
  8. 8Humphrey Cobb136
  9. 9Mazo de la Roche127
  10. 10Enid Bagnold120

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.