Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Thomas Mann
Charting Jun 18, 1934 → Nov 27, 1955 · 54 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 crowns
19341955Longest reign 2 weeks (Sep 1940) · First crown Sep 1940
- Peak Power
- 6.08%
- week of Oct 14, 1940
- Career Power
- 329
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 2
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 79
- October 1939 – October 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 184
- October 1935 – October 1940
- Top-five weeks
- 15
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 54
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Sep 9, 1940
- Comebacks
- 6
- Jun 1936 · Mar 1938 · Sep 1940 · Jan 1949, after 8 quiet years · Oct 1951 · Nov 1955
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 · 329 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 Beloved Returns | #1 | 7 | 79.1 | ||
| Joseph in Egypt | #2 | 6 | 64.8 | ||
| The Holy Sinner | #6 | 12 | 46.7 | ||
| Stories of Three Decades | #4 | 6 | 40.4 | ||
| Doctor Faustus | #9 | 12 | 36.9 | ||
| Confessions of Felix Krull | #8 | 8 | 34.3 | ||
| Joseph and His Brothers | #4 | 3 | 26.4 |
At their peak
1939 in books →Thomas Mann's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1939 to October 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Llewellyn445
- 2Christopher Morley293
- 3Sholem Asch282
- 4F. Van Wyck Mason206
- 5W. Somerset Maugham176
- 6Lin Yutang160
- 7Louis Bromfield159
- 8Ethel Vance146
- 9Jan Struther144
- 10Henry Bellamann135
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.