Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Evelyn Waugh
Charting Jan 20, 1946 → Feb 25, 1962 · 72 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.77%
- week of Oct 17, 1948
- Career Power
- 406
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 158
- July 1945 – July 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 332
- January 1946 – January 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 21
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 72
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Aug 1, 1948
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 1948
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 · 406 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brideshead Revisited | #3 | 24 | 157.7 | ||
| The Loved One | #2 | 17 | 152.1 | ||
| Men at Arms | #7 | 12 | 43.2 | ||
| Officers and Gentlemen | #9 | 8 | 26.6 | ||
| Helena | #10 | 8 | 20.1 | ||
| The End of the Battle | #15 | 2 | 3.9 | ||
| Scott-King's Modern Europe | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Evelyn Waugh's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1945 to July 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain449
- 2Daphne Du Maurier271
- 3Erich Maria Remarque264
- 4Adria Locke Langley246
- 5James Ramsey Ullman245
- 6James Hilton204
- 7Kathleen Winsor180
- 8Taylor Caldwell177
- 9Sinclair Lewis175
- 10Upton Sinclair160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.