Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kathleen Norris
Charting Mar 28, 1932 → Sep 15, 1941 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.92%
- week of Oct 12, 1936
- Career Power
- 141
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- Peak Year
- 60
- October 1935 – October 1936
- Peak Five Years
- 111
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 27, 1933
- Comebacks
- 2
- October 1935, September 1941
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Oct 2, 1933 | Oct 21, 1935 | 107 | 70 | 1.48% | 1.05% |
| After absence | Oct 11, 1937 | Sep 15, 1941 | 205 | 203 | 3.92% | 1.51% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
9 books · 141 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 American Flaggs | #4 | 7 | 50.6 | ||
| The Venables | #5 | 2 | 15.6 | ||
| You Can't Have Everything | #5 | 2 | 13.9 | ||
| Walls of Gold | #2 | 1 | 12.7 | ||
| Second-Hand Wife | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Younger Sister | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Wife for Sale | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Shining Windows | #4 | 1 | 9.6 | ||
| Three Men and Diana | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |