Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dashiell Hammett
Charting Jan 15, 1934 → Mar 5, 1934 · 8 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 crowns
19341934Longest reign 3 weeks (Jan 1934) · First crown Jan 1934
- Peak Power
- 5.86%
- week of Mar 5, 1934
- Career Power
- 84
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 3
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 84
- March 1933 – March 1934
- Peak Five Years
- 84
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jan 15, 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 →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 book · 84 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 Thin Man | #1 | 8 | 84.5 |
At their peak
1933 in books →Dashiell Hammett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1933 to March 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Hervey Allen502
- 2Sinclair Lewis164
- 3Gladys Hasty Carroll129
- 4Hans Fallada115
- 5John Galsworthy100
- 6Margaret Ayer Barnes90
- 7Mary Roberts Rinehart89
- 8Dashiell Hammett84
- 9Thorne Smith64
- 10Louis Bromfield62
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.