Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sholem Asch
Charting Oct 30, 1939 → Feb 12, 1956 · 143 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 crowns
19391956Longest reign 5 weeks (Jan 1940) · First crown Dec 1939
- Peak Power
- 11.22%
- week of Mar 11, 1940
- Career Power
- 1,177
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 8
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 282
- April 1939 – April 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 533
- November 1946 – October 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 87
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 143
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Dec 18, 1939
- Comebacks
- 4
- Nov 1943 · Dec 1946 · Nov 1949 · Dec 1951
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 · 1,177 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 Nazarene | #1 | 24 | 281.7 | ||
| East River | #1 | 28 | 258.4 | ||
| Mary | #2 | 30 | 257.8 | ||
| The Apostle | #3 | 20 | 183.2 | ||
| Moses | #4 | 26 | 165.0 | ||
| The Prophet | #12 | 9 | 20.0 | ||
| A Passage in the Night | #15 | 6 | 11.2 |
At their peak
1939 in books →Sholem Asch's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1939 to April 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Steinbeck458
- 2Sholem Asch282
- 3Christopher Morley271
- 4Ethel Vance183
- 5Lin Yutang160
- 6Rachel Field152
- 7John P. Marquand147
- 8Thomas Wolfe127
- 9C. S. Forester123
- 10Pietro di Donato114
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.