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Charting May 24, 1943Aug 9, 1943 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.56%
week of Aug 9, 1943
Career Power
96
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
96
August 1942 – August 1943
Peak Five Years
96
August 1938 – August 1943
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of May 24, 1943
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

1 book · 96 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.

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At their peak

1942 in books

Xavier Herbert's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1942 to August 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Lloyd C. Douglas533
  2. 2Marcia Davenport489
  3. 3Franz Werfel340
  4. 4Nancy Hale228
  5. 5William Saroyan160
  6. 6Louis Bromfield143
  7. 7Rachel Field97
  8. 8Xavier Herbert96
  9. 9Helen MacInnes93
  10. 10Daphne Du Maurier85

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.