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Dennis Wheatley

Charting Oct 12, 1936Nov 30, 1936 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.69%
week of Nov 30, 1936
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
22
December 1935 – November 1936
Peak Five Years
22
December 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Nov 9, 1936
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

2 books · 22 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
Crimefile No. 1with J. H. Links#5518.2
File on Bolitho Blanewith J. H. Links#514.2

At their peak

1935 in books

Dennis Wheatley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1935 to November 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1George Santayana330
  2. 2Margaret Mitchell313
  3. 3Sinclair Lewis266
  4. 4Walter D. Edmonds205
  5. 5Charles Morgan179
  6. 6Mary Roberts Rinehart151
  7. 7Aldous Huxley149
  8. 8Hervey Allen113
  9. 9Rebecca West112
  10. 10Vincent Sheean104

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.