Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
George Santayana
Charting Feb 10, 1936 → Sep 14, 1936 · 29 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
11 crowns
19361936Longest reign 11 weeks (Feb–Apr 1936) · First crown Feb 1936
- Peak Power
- 11.41%
- week of May 25, 1936
- Career Power
- 330
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 11
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 330
- September 1935 – September 1936
- Peak Five Years
- 330
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 25
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 29
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Feb 10, 1936
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
1 book · 330 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Puritan | #1 | 29 | 329.5 |
At their peak
1935 in books →George Santayana's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1935 to September 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Sinclair Lewis337
- 2George Santayana330
- 3Robert Briffault249
- 4Charles Morgan179
- 5Ellen Glasgow158
- 6Margaret Mitchell154
- 7Mary Roberts Rinehart151
- 8Rebecca West112
- 9Aldous Huxley107
- 10Vincent Sheean104
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.