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James M. Cain portraitJames M. Cain

Charting Feb 26, 1934Sep 5, 1948 · 26 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.92%
week of Apr 2, 1934
Career Power
154
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
59
April 1933 – April 1934
Peak Five Years
116
February 1933 – February 1938
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
26
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Mar 26, 1934
Comebacks
2
Jan 1938 · Jul 1946, after 8 quiet years

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

4 books · 154 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
The Postman Always Rings Twice#2659.3
Serenade#3756.4
Past All Dishonor#9725.3
The Moth#11612.7

At their peak

1933 in books

James M. Cain's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1933 to April 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen554
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis155
  3. 3Gladys Hasty Carroll129
  4. 4Hans Fallada115
  5. 5Mary Roberts Rinehart104
  6. 6John Galsworthy100
  7. 7Margaret Ayer Barnes97
  8. 8Dashiell Hammett84
  9. 9James Joyce81
  10. 10Thorne Smith64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.