Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Rafael Sabatini
Charting Oct 12, 1931 → Sep 30, 1945 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.15%
- week of Jun 20, 1932
- Career Power
- 47
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 43
- October 1931 – November 1932
- Peak Five Years
- 43
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of May 30, 1932
- 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
3 books · 47 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 Black Swan | #2 | 3 | 34.7 | ||
| Scarmouche the King Maker | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| The Birth of Mischief | #15 | 2 | 3.9 |
At their peak
1931 in books →Rafael Sabatini's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1931 to November 1932. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Charles Morgan245
- 2Pearl S. Buck213
- 3Booth Tarkington127
- 4John Galsworthy125
- 5Louis Golding94
- 6Ellen Glasgow94
- 7Julia Peterkin60
- 8Margaret Ayer Barnes58
- 9Phyllis Bentley55
- 10William McFee54
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.