Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Somerset Maugham
Charting Aug 27, 1934 → Dec 17, 1944 · 54 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 crowns
19341944Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr 1937) · First crown Mar 1937
- Peak Power
- 12.06%
- week of Oct 22, 1944
- Career Power
- 603
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 8
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 379
- December 1943 – December 1944
- Peak Five Years
- 379
- January 1940 – December 1944
- Top-five weeks
- 44
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 54
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Mar 22, 1937
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1944, after 7 quiet years
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
5 books · 603 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 Razor's Edge | #1 | 31 | 379.0 | ||
| Theatre | #1 | 19 | 196.1 | ||
| Teller of Tales | #6 | 2 | 13.6 | ||
| East and West | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| Cosmopolitans | #7 | 1 | 6.3 |
At their peak
1943 in books →Somerset Maugham's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1943 to December 1944. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lillian Smith429
- 2Betty Smith419
- 3Somerset Maugham379
- 4John Hersey289
- 5Lloyd C. Douglas273
- 6Elizabeth Goudge134
- 7John P. Marquand121
- 8Joseph S. Pennell117
- 9Ben Ames Williams111
- 10Kathleen Winsor102
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.