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Louis-Ferdinand Celine portraitLouis-Ferdinand Celine

Charting Apr 30, 1934 → Jun 18, 1934 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.87%
week of Jun 18, 1934
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
June 1933 – June 1934
Peak Five Years
11
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Apr 30, 1934
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

1 book · 11 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
Journey to the End of the Night#8211.0

At their peak

1933 in books →

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1933 to June 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen691
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis148
  3. 3John Galsworthy100
  4. 4Margaret Ayer Barnes97
  5. 5Lion Feuchtwanger91
  6. 6Hans Fallada85
  7. 7Dashiell Hammett84
  8. 8James Joyce81
  9. 9Isak Dinesen78
  10. 10Caroline Miller71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.