Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Aldridge
Charting Sep 21, 1942 → Apr 2, 1950 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.13%
- week of Oct 26, 1942
- Career Power
- 70
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 62
- November 1941 – October 1942
- Peak Five Years
- 62
- November 1937 – October 1942
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Oct 5, 1942
- 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
2 books · 70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signed with Their Honour | #2 | 6 | 62.0 | ||
| The Diplomat | #12 | 3 | 8.3 |
At their peak
1941 in books →James Aldridge's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1941 to October 1942. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Franz Werfel297
- 2Mary Ellen Chase248
- 3Pearl S. Buck239
- 4John Steinbeck234
- 5Rachel Field233
- 6A. J. Cronin209
- 7Marguerite Steen207
- 8Edna Ferber159
- 9Louis Bromfield150
- 10Helen MacInnes135
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.