Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Jennings
Charting Jun 19, 1939 → Feb 4, 1951 · 43 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.62%
- week of Nov 10, 1946
- Career Power
- 282
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 145
- February 1946 – January 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 178
- February 1946 – February 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 19
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 43
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jun 19, 1939
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 1946, after 7 quiet years
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
4 books · 282 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 Salem Frigate | #3 | 22 | 144.6 | ||
| Next to Valour | #2 | 10 | 104.2 | ||
| The Sea Eagles | #8 | 8 | 26.8 | ||
| The Pepper Tree | #13 | 3 | 6.4 |
At their peak
1946 in books →John Jennings's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1946 to January 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Taylor Caldwell449
- 2Frederic Wakeman369
- 3Erich Maria Remarque283
- 4Daphne Du Maurier260
- 5Mary Jane Ward195
- 6Frank Yerby191
- 7Russell Janney179
- 8Thomas B. Costain171
- 9Margery Sharp152
- 10Sholem Asch146
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.