Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Norman Hall
Charting Nov 12, 1934 → Jan 14, 1951 · 34 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.96%
- week of May 4, 1936
- Career Power
- 159
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 67
- May 1935 – May 1936
- Peak Five Years
- 125
- September 1933 – September 1938
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 34
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.66%
- week of Dec 3, 1934
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jul 1938 · Dec 1941
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
5 books · 159 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 Hurricanewith Charles Nordhoff | #2 | 12 | 67.0 | ||
| Pitcairn's Islandwith Charles Nordhoff | #2 | 6 | 33.4 | ||
| Botany Baywith Charles Nordhoff | #5 | 7 | 26.0 | ||
| The Dark Riverwith Charles Nordhoff | #4 | 6 | 24.2 | ||
| The Far Lands | #12 | 3 | 8.7 |
At their peak
1935 in books →James Norman Hall's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1935 to May 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Sinclair Lewis329
- 2Robert Briffault262
- 3Lloyd C. Douglas242
- 4Ellen Glasgow187
- 5George Santayana185
- 6Humphrey Cobb168
- 7Thomas Wolfe153
- 8Mazo de la Roche143
- 9Willa Cather123
- 10Enid Bagnold113
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.