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Mary Roberts Rinehart

Charting Feb 22, 1932Jul 27, 1952 · 72 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    19321952

    Longest reign 4 weeks (Jun 1936) · First crown Jun 1936

Peak Power
8.49%
week of Aug 17, 1936
Career Power
580
share-weeks
Crowns
4
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
151
September 1935 – August 1936
Peak Five Years
315
October 1933 – September 1938
Top-five weeks
38
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
72
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jun 8, 1936
Comebacks
5
Jun 1933 · Jun 1936 · Aug 1938 · Mar 1948, after 9 quiet years · Mar 1952

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

7 books · 580 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 Doctor#113151.2
The Swimming Pool#524128.5
The Wall#31098.5
The State Versus Elinor Norton#3765.6
A Light in the Window#51262.2
The Album#2337.9
Miss Pinkerton#2336.3

At their peak

1935 in books

Mary Roberts Rinehart's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1935 to August 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Sinclair Lewis337
  2. 2George Santayana322
  3. 3Robert Briffault262
  4. 4Ellen Glasgow187
  5. 5Charles Morgan179
  6. 6Mary Roberts Rinehart151
  7. 7Rebecca West112
  8. 8Margaret Mitchell110
  9. 9Josephine Lawrence97
  10. 10Rosamond Lehmann94

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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