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Jules Romains portraitJules Romains

Charting Jun 26, 1933Jan 29, 1940 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.20%
week of Jun 26, 1933
Career Power
18
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
July 1932 – June 1933
Peak Five Years
11
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jun 26, 1933
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

2 books · 18 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
Men of Good-Will#3111.0
Verdun#617.3

At their peak

1932 in books

Jules Romains's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1932 to June 1933. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Charles Morgan201
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis172
  3. 3John Galsworthy116
  4. 4Thorne Smith106
  5. 5Gladys Hasty Carroll105
  6. 6Ellen Glasgow94
  7. 7James G. Cozzens91
  8. 8Pearl S. Buck87
  9. 9Robert Nathan73
  10. 10Phyllis Bentley55

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.