Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Boyd
Charting May 6, 1935 → Jul 29, 1935 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.26%
- week of Jul 29, 1935
- Career Power
- 48
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 48
- August 1934 – July 1935
- Peak Five Years
- 48
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Jul 1, 1935
- 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 · 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roll River | #5 | 7 | 47.6 |
At their peak
1934 in books →James Boyd's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1934 to July 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Hilton527
- 2Stark Young336
- 3Lloyd C. Douglas236
- 4Franz Werfel229
- 5Thomas Wolfe225
- 6Edna Ferber156
- 7Thornton Wilder148
- 8Caroline Miller126
- 9Enid Bagnold114
- 10Humphrey Cobb111
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.