Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Charting Feb 22, 1932 → Jul 27, 1952 · 72 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
19321952Longest 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Doctor | #1 | 13 | 151.2 | ||
| The Swimming Pool | #5 | 24 | 128.5 | ||
| The Wall | #3 | 10 | 98.5 | ||
| The State Versus Elinor Norton | #3 | 7 | 65.6 | ||
| A Light in the Window | #5 | 12 | 62.2 | ||
| The Album | #2 | 3 | 37.9 | ||
| Miss Pinkerton | #2 | 3 | 36.3 |
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:
- 1Sinclair Lewis337
- 2George Santayana322
- 3Robert Briffault262
- 4Ellen Glasgow187
- 5Charles Morgan179
- 6Mary Roberts Rinehart151
- 7Rebecca West112
- 8Margaret Mitchell110
- 9Josephine Lawrence97
- 10Rosamond Lehmann94
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.