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Evelyn Waugh portraitEvelyn Waugh

Charting Jan 20, 1946Feb 25, 1962 · 72 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Brideshead Revisited#324157.7
The Loved One#217152.1
Men at Arms#71243.2
Officers and Gentlemen#9826.6
Helena#10820.1
The End of the Battle#1523.9
Scott-King's Modern Europe#1512.1

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:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain449
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier271
  3. 3Erich Maria Remarque264
  4. 4Adria Locke Langley246
  5. 5James Ramsey Ullman245
  6. 6James Hilton204
  7. 7Kathleen Winsor180
  8. 8Taylor Caldwell177
  9. 9Sinclair Lewis175
  10. 10Upton Sinclair160

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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