Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Upton Sinclair
Charting Jul 1, 1940 → Sep 25, 1949 · 64 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.28%
- week of Sep 16, 1945
- Career Power
- 419
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 163
- July 1945 – June 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 331
- November 1943 – November 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 24
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 64
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jul 29, 1945
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1944
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
10 books · 419 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon Harvest | #2 | 18 | 143.4 | ||
| Presidential Agent | #3 | 6 | 57.9 | ||
| A World to Win | #5 | 10 | 56.6 | ||
| World's End | #3 | 5 | 48.5 | ||
| Presidential Mission | #7 | 10 | 45.2 | ||
| One Clear Call | #6 | 7 | 27.9 | ||
| O Shepherd, Speak! | #8 | 5 | 19.8 | ||
| Dragon's Teeth | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| Between Two Worlds | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| O SHEPHERD, SPEAK! By. (Viking.) | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Upton Sinclair's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1945 to June 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain449
- 2Daphne Du Maurier267
- 3Adria Locke Langley261
- 4Erich Maria Remarque256
- 5James Ramsey Ullman245
- 6James Hilton204
- 7Kathleen Winsor180
- 8Sinclair Lewis175
- 9Upton Sinclair163
- 10Taylor Caldwell162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.