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James T. Farrell portraitJames T. Farrell

Charting Jun 9, 1946Jul 7, 1946 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.61%
week of Jul 7, 1946
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
7
July 1945 – July 1946
Peak Five Years
7
July 1941 – July 1946
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Jul 7, 1946
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 · 7 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.

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At their peak

1945 in books

James T. Farrell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1945 to July 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain449
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier271
  3. 3Erich Maria Remarque264
  4. 4Adria Locke Langley246
  5. 5James Ramsey Ullman245
  6. 6James Hilton204
  7. 7Kathleen Winsor180
  8. 8Taylor Caldwell177
  9. 9Sinclair Lewis175
  10. 10Upton Sinclair160

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.