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Dorothy L. Sayers portraitDorothy L. Sayers

Charting Mar 2, 1936Mar 15, 1937 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.66%
week of Apr 20, 1936
Career Power
76
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
62
April 1935 – April 1936
Peak Five Years
76
March 1932 – March 1937
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Mar 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 · 76 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
Gaudy Night#4861.8
Busman's Honeymoon#5214.7

At their peak

1935 in books

Dorothy L. Sayers's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1935 to April 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Sinclair Lewis310
  2. 2Lloyd C. Douglas270
  3. 3Robert Briffault262
  4. 4Ellen Glasgow187
  5. 5Thomas Wolfe181
  6. 6Humphrey Cobb168
  7. 7George Santayana160
  8. 8Mazo de la Roche143
  9. 9Willa Cather123
  10. 10Enid Bagnold120

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.