Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Buchan
Charting Aug 24, 1936 → Mar 31, 1941 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.50%
- week of Mar 31, 1941
- Career Power
- 27
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- April 1940 – March 1941
- Peak Five Years
- 27
- April 1936 – March 1941
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Mar 24, 1941
- Comebacks
- 1
- Mar 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
2 books · 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Meadow | #6 | 2 | 14.5 | ||
| The Man from the Norlands | #7 | 2 | 12.7 |
At their peak
1940 in books →John Buchan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1940 to March 1941. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Llewellyn349
- 2Jan Struther327
- 3Ernest Hemingway290
- 4Kenneth Roberts226
- 5F. Van Wyck Mason206
- 6Nina Fedorova144
- 7Louis Bromfield136
- 8Henry Bellamann135
- 9James Hilton125
- 10Elizabeth von Arnim117
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.