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Rex Stout

Charting Aug 26, 1935Aug 26, 1935 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.60%
week of Aug 26, 1935
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
September 1934 – August 1935
Peak Five Years
6
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Aug 26, 1935
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

1 book · 6 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 League of the Frightened Men#815.5

At their peak

1934 in books

Rex Stout's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1934 to August 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton494
  2. 2Stark Young285
  3. 3Lloyd C. Douglas282
  4. 4Thomas Wolfe262
  5. 5Franz Werfel244
  6. 6Edna Ferber156
  7. 7Humphrey Cobb155
  8. 8Thornton Wilder148
  9. 9Mazo de la Roche143
  10. 10Rachel Field134

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.