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John Buchan

Charting Aug 24, 1936Mar 31, 1941 · 4 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Mountain Meadow#6214.5
The Man from the Norlands#7212.7

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:

  1. 1Richard Llewellyn349
  2. 2Jan Struther327
  3. 3Ernest Hemingway290
  4. 4Kenneth Roberts226
  5. 5F. Van Wyck Mason206
  6. 6Nina Fedorova144
  7. 7Louis Bromfield136
  8. 8Henry Bellamann135
  9. 9James Hilton125
  10. 10Elizabeth von Arnim117

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.