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Erich Maria Remarque portraitErich Maria Remarque

Charting May 10, 1937Sep 6, 1964 · 93 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    8 crowns

    19371964

    Longest reign 7 weeks (Mar–May 1946) · First crown Mar 1946

Peak Power
11.02%
week of May 12, 1946
Career Power
677
share-weeks
Crowns
8
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
283
August 1945 – August 1946
Peak Five Years
283
August 1941 – August 1946
Top-five weeks
42
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
93
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 10, 1946
Comebacks
4
Feb 1946, after 9 quiet years · Mar 1952, after 5 quiet years · Aug 1954 · May 1964, after 10 quiet years

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

7 books · 677 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
Arch of Triumph#127283.1
A Night in Lisbon#320142.4
Spark of Life#414105.7
A Time to Love and a Time to Die#61781.0
The Black Obelisk#8930.6
Three Comrades#5430.3
Heaven Has No Favorites#1524.2

At their peak

1945 in books

Erich Maria Remarque's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1945 to August 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain449
  2. 2Erich Maria Remarque283
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier278
  4. 4James Ramsey Ullman245
  5. 5Taylor Caldwell222
  6. 6James Hilton204
  7. 7Kathleen Winsor180
  8. 8Adria Locke Langley176
  9. 9Sinclair Lewis175
  10. 10Mary Jane Ward159

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.