Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Charting Jan 18, 1932 → Jan 25, 1937 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.86%
- week of Feb 4, 1935
- Career Power
- 175
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 80
- August 1935 – August 1936
- Peak Five Years
- 170
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 8
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jan 18, 1932
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jun 1934
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
9 books · 175 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floating Peril | #4 | 6 | 45.6 | ||
| The Spy Paramount | #3 | 4 | 39.6 | ||
| The Magnificent Hoax | #6 | 4 | 28.1 | ||
| The Strange Boarders at Palace Crescent | #6 | 3 | 20.0 | ||
| The Man from Sing Sing | #2 | 1 | 12.7 | ||
| The Man Without Nerves | #7 | 2 | 11.8 | ||
| The Battle of Basinghall Street | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| The Gallows of Chance | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| The Dumb Gods Speak | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1935 in books →E. Phillips Oppenheim's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1935 to August 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Sinclair Lewis337
- 2George Santayana317
- 3Robert Briffault262
- 4Ellen Glasgow187
- 5Charles Morgan179
- 6Mary Roberts Rinehart143
- 7Rebecca West112
- 8Josephine Lawrence97
- 9Margaret Mitchell96
- 10Willa Cather94
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.