Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James M. Cain
Charting Feb 26, 1934 → Sep 5, 1948 · 26 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | #2 | 6 | 59.3 | ||
| Serenade | #3 | 7 | 56.4 | ||
| Past All Dishonor | #9 | 7 | 25.3 | ||
| The Moth | #11 | 6 | 12.7 |
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:
- 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.