Skip to content

Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

James Aldridge

Charting Sep 21, 1942Apr 2, 1950 · 9 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Signed with Their Honour#2662.0
The Diplomat#1238.3

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:

  1. 1Franz Werfel297
  2. 2Mary Ellen Chase248
  3. 3Pearl S. Buck239
  4. 4John Steinbeck234
  5. 5Rachel Field233
  6. 6A. J. Cronin209
  7. 7Marguerite Steen207
  8. 8Edna Ferber159
  9. 9Louis Bromfield150
  10. 10Helen MacInnes135

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.