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Louis Golding

Charting Mar 28, 1932 → Aug 28, 1939 · 14 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 crowns
19321939
Longest reign 4 weeks (Apr 1932) · First crown Apr 1932

Peak Power: 6.84%; week of May 16, 1932
Career Power: 160; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 94; October 1931 – November 1932
Peak Five Years: 145; October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks: 11; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 14; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Apr 4, 1932
Comebacks: 1; May 1934

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

3 books · 160 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
Magnolia Street	#1April 1932	7	March 1932 – May 1932	94.4	94.4
Five Silver Daughters	#1May 1934	5	May 1934 – June 1934	50.7	50.7
Mr. Emmanuel	#6August 1939	2	August 1939 – August 1939	14.5	14.5

At their peak

1931 in books →

Louis Golding's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1931 to November 1932. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.