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Hans Fallada portraitHans Fallada

Charting Jun 12, 1933Aug 14, 1933 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19331933

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Jun 1933) · First crown Jun 1933

Peak Power
7.62%
week of Jul 31, 1933
Career Power
115
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
115
August 1932 – August 1933
Peak Five Years
115
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
9
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jun 12, 1933
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

1 book · 115 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
Little Man, What Now?#19114.5

At their peak

1932 in books

Hans Fallada's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1932 to August 1933. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Sinclair Lewis172
  2. 2Gladys Hasty Carroll129
  3. 3John Galsworthy116
  4. 4Hans Fallada115
  5. 5Thorne Smith106
  6. 6Hervey Allen102
  7. 7Charles Morgan101
  8. 8Ellen Glasgow94
  9. 9James G. Cozzens91
  10. 10Pearl S. Buck87

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.