Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Joyce
Charting Feb 5, 1934 → Apr 2, 1934 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.80%
- week of Apr 2, 1934
- Career Power
- 81
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 81
- April 1933 – April 1934
- Peak Five Years
- 81
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Feb 12, 1934
- 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 · 81 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulysses | #2 | 9 | 81.5 |
At their peak
1933 in books →James Joyce's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1933 to April 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Hervey Allen554
- 2Sinclair Lewis155
- 3Gladys Hasty Carroll129
- 4Hans Fallada115
- 5Mary Roberts Rinehart104
- 6John Galsworthy100
- 7Margaret Ayer Barnes97
- 8Dashiell Hammett84
- 9James Joyce81
- 10Thorne Smith64
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.