Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dorothy L. Sayers
Charting Mar 2, 1936 → Mar 15, 1937 · 10 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaudy Night | #4 | 8 | 61.8 | ||
| Busman's Honeymoon | #5 | 2 | 14.7 |
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:
- 1Sinclair Lewis310
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas270
- 3Robert Briffault262
- 4Ellen Glasgow187
- 5Thomas Wolfe181
- 6Humphrey Cobb168
- 7George Santayana160
- 8Mazo de la Roche143
- 9Willa Cather123
- 10Enid Bagnold120
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.