Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Thomas Wolfe
Charting Mar 18, 1935 → Nov 10, 1941 · 46 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
9 crowns
19351941Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr 1935) · First crown Mar 1935
- Peak Power
- 9.60%
- week of May 20, 1935
- Career Power
- 499
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 9
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 267
- September 1934 – September 1935
- Peak Five Years
- 394
- September 1934 – September 1939
- Top-five weeks
- 37
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 46
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.97%
- week of Mar 18, 1935
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1939
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
4 books · 499 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Time and the River | #1 | 25 | 267.4 | ||
| The Web and the Rock | #2 | 11 | 126.8 | ||
| You Can't Go Home Again | #1 | 8 | 90.5 | ||
| The Hills Beyond | #6 | 2 | 14.5 |
At their peak
1934 in books →Thomas Wolfe's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1934 to September 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Hilton482
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas295
- 3Stark Young271
- 4Thomas Wolfe267
- 5Franz Werfel244
- 6Humphrey Cobb163
- 7Edna Ferber156
- 8Thornton Wilder148
- 9Mazo de la Roche143
- 10Rachel Field134
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.