Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
P. G. Wodehouse
Charting May 7, 1934 → Aug 2, 1937 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.71%
- week of Jan 11, 1937
- Career Power
- 97
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 78
- August 1936 – August 1937
- Peak Five Years
- 97
- August 1932 – August 1937
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Dec 28, 1936
- 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
5 books · 97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laughing Gas | #3 | 4 | 38.5 | ||
| The Crime Wave at Blandings | #4 | 4 | 28.7 | ||
| Young Men in Spats | #8 | 3 | 16.5 | ||
| Brinkley Manor | #7 | 1 | 6.7 | ||
| Thank You, Jeeves | #7 | 1 | 6.3 |
At their peak
1936 in books →P. G. Wodehouse's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1936 to August 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Margaret Mitchell639
- 2Walter D. Edmonds493
- 3Virginia Woolf201
- 4Somerset Maugham182
- 5Millen Brand157
- 6Lloyd C. Douglas142
- 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
- 8Hervey Allen133
- 9John P. Marquand125
- 10Aldous Huxley116
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.