Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Erich Maria Remarque
Charting May 10, 1937 → Sep 6, 1964 · 93 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 crowns
19371964Longest 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch of Triumph | #1 | 27 | 283.1 | ||
| A Night in Lisbon | #3 | 20 | 142.4 | ||
| Spark of Life | #4 | 14 | 105.7 | ||
| A Time to Love and a Time to Die | #6 | 17 | 81.0 | ||
| The Black Obelisk | #8 | 9 | 30.6 | ||
| Three Comrades | #5 | 4 | 30.3 | ||
| Heaven Has No Favorites | #15 | 2 | 4.2 |
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:
- 1Thomas B. Costain449
- 2Erich Maria Remarque283
- 3Daphne Du Maurier278
- 4James Ramsey Ullman245
- 5Taylor Caldwell222
- 6James Hilton204
- 7Kathleen Winsor180
- 8Adria Locke Langley176
- 9Sinclair Lewis175
- 10Mary Jane Ward159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.