Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jim Bishop
Charting Dec 9, 1945 → Dec 9, 1945 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Dec 9, 1945
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- December 1944 – December 1945
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- December 1940 – December 1945
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Dec 9, 1945
- 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 · 2 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 Glass Crutch | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1944 in books →Jim Bishop's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1944 to December 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin364
- 2Gwenthalyn Graham296
- 3Adria Locke Langley284
- 4Kathleen Winsor281
- 5Thomas B. Costain177
- 6James Hilton171
- 7Upton Sinclair143
- 8Rosamond Lehmann128
- 9James Ramsey Ullman127
- 10Irving Stone118
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.