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John Galsworthy

Charting Nov 16, 1931Dec 25, 1933 · 25 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    15 crowns

    19311933

    Longest reign 8 weeks (Nov 1932 – Jan 1933) · First crown Nov 1931

Peak Power
8.82%
week of Jan 18, 1932
Career Power
341
share-weeks
Crowns
15
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
179
November 1932 – November 1933
Peak Five Years
341
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
25
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Nov 16, 1931
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

3 books · 341 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
Maid in Waiting#19125.3
Flowering Wilderness#18116.2
One More River#2899.5

At their peak

1932 in books

John Galsworthy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1932 to November 1933. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen291
  2. 2John Galsworthy179
  3. 3Sinclair Lewis172
  4. 4Gladys Hasty Carroll129
  5. 5Hans Fallada115
  6. 6Thorne Smith93
  7. 7James G. Cozzens91
  8. 8Robert Nathan73
  9. 9S. S. Van Dine68
  10. 10Louis Bromfield62

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.