Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Hugh Walpole
Charting Sep 19, 1932 → Aug 25, 1941 · 25 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.35%
- week of Dec 14, 1936
- Career Power
- 224
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 79
- October 1936 – October 1937
- Peak Five Years
- 181
- October 1932 – October 1937
- Top-five weeks
- 16
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 25
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Sep 25, 1933
- Comebacks
- 2
- Nov 1936 · Aug 1941
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
9 books · 224 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Prayer for My Son | #3 | 8 | 64.5 | ||
| Captain Nicholas | #2 | 4 | 43.4 | ||
| Vanessa | #2 | 3 | 37.9 | ||
| The Inquisitor | #5 | 3 | 20.2 | ||
| The Blind Man's House | #5 | 2 | 16.7 | ||
| John Corneliius | #5 | 2 | 14.7 | ||
| The Fortress | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Sea Tower | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| The Joyful Delaneys | #6 | 1 | 7.3 |
At their peak
1936 in books →Hugh Walpole's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1936 to October 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Margaret Mitchell542
- 2Walter D. Edmonds397
- 3Virginia Woolf226
- 4Kenneth Roberts200
- 5Somerset Maugham196
- 6Millen Brand189
- 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
- 8Michael Foster136
- 9Lloyd C. Douglas134
- 10Vaughan Wilkins129
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.