Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Francis Brett Young
Charting Jan 25, 1932 → Oct 25, 1937 · 9 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 crowns
19321937Longest reign 2 weeks (Jan–Feb 1932) · First crown Jan 1932
- Peak Power
- 4.83%
- week of Feb 15, 1932
- Career Power
- 91
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 2
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 53
- October 1931 – November 1932
- Peak Five Years
- 85
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jan 25, 1932
- Comebacks
- 1
- Oct 1935
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
4 books · 91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. and Mrs. Pennington | #1 | 4 | 52.7 | ||
| White Ladies | #4 | 3 | 25.2 | ||
| Far Forest | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| They Seek a Country | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1931 in books →Francis Brett Young's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1931 to November 1932. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Charles Morgan245
- 2Pearl S. Buck213
- 3Booth Tarkington127
- 4John Galsworthy125
- 5Louis Golding94
- 6Ellen Glasgow94
- 7Julia Peterkin60
- 8Margaret Ayer Barnes58
- 9Phyllis Bentley55
- 10William McFee54
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.