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John Jennings

Charting Jun 19, 1939Feb 4, 1951 · 43 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Salem Frigate#322144.6
Next to Valour#210104.2
The Sea Eagles#8826.8
The Pepper Tree#1336.4

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:

  1. 1Taylor Caldwell449
  2. 2Frederic Wakeman369
  3. 3Erich Maria Remarque283
  4. 4Daphne Du Maurier260
  5. 5Mary Jane Ward195
  6. 6Frank Yerby191
  7. 7Russell Janney179
  8. 8Thomas B. Costain171
  9. 9Margery Sharp152
  10. 10Sholem Asch146

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.