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Upton Sinclair portraitUpton Sinclair

Charting Jul 1, 1940Sep 25, 1949 · 64 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Dragon Harvest#218143.4
Presidential Agent#3657.9
A World to Win#51056.6
World's End#3548.5
Presidential Mission#71045.2
One Clear Call#6727.9
O Shepherd, Speak!#8519.8
Dragon's Teeth#518.3
Between Two Worlds#617.3
O SHEPHERD, SPEAK! By. (Viking.)#1014.2

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:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain449
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier267
  3. 3Adria Locke Langley261
  4. 4Erich Maria Remarque256
  5. 5James Ramsey Ullman245
  6. 6James Hilton204
  7. 7Kathleen Winsor180
  8. 8Sinclair Lewis175
  9. 9Upton Sinclair163
  10. 10Taylor Caldwell162

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.