Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Hilton
Charting Jul 23, 1934 → Mar 14, 1954 · 155 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
27 crowns
19341954Longest reign 12 weeks (Oct 1934 – Jan 1935) · First crown Oct 1934
- Peak Power
- 16.49%
- week of Jan 7, 1935
- Career Power
- 1,599
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 27
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 545
- May 1934 – April 1935
- Peak Five Years
- 635
- May 1932 – May 1937
- Top-five weeks
- 113
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 155
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 22.85%
- week of Dec 3, 1934
- Comebacks
- 4
- May 1937 · Mar 1941 · Sep 1945 · Nov 1953, after 8 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 books · 1,599 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good-Bye, Mr. Chips | #2 | 41 | 378.9 | ||
| Random Harvest | #1 | 29 | 357.2 | ||
| Time and Time Again | #2 | 27 | 222.2 | ||
| So Well Remembered | #1 | 23 | 204.4 | ||
| Lost Horizon | #1 | 23 | 166.4 | ||
| Nothing So Strange | #4 | 13 | 91.1 | ||
| We Are Not Alone | #2 | 9 | 89.6 | ||
| Morning Journey | #4 | 13 | 89.2 |
At their peak
1934 in books →James Hilton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1934 to April 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Hilton545
- 2Stark Young343
- 3Caroline Miller279
- 4Hervey Allen257
- 5Franz Werfel229
- 6Robert Graves152
- 7Thornton Wilder148
- 8Edna Ferber115
- 9Irving Stone105
- 10Thomas Wolfe99
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.