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James N. Hall

Charting Nov 14, 1932Dec 16, 1935 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.76%
week of Feb 5, 1934
Career Power
31
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
22
March 1933 – March 1934
Peak Five Years
31
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Nov 14, 1932
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

2 books · 31 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
Men Against the Seawith Charles Nordhoff#3522.0
Mutiny on the Bountywith Charles Nordhoff#229.1

At their peak

1933 in books

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

  1. 1Hervey Allen502
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis164
  3. 3Gladys Hasty Carroll129
  4. 4Hans Fallada115
  5. 5John Galsworthy100
  6. 6Margaret Ayer Barnes90
  7. 7Mary Roberts Rinehart89
  8. 8Dashiell Hammett84
  9. 9Thorne Smith64
  10. 10Louis Bromfield62

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.