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NYT Hardcover Fiction

Author of the Year 1934

Hervey Allen

7 crowns · 40 weeks among the top five authors · Era Power 486

Top authors of 1934

#	Author	Era Power	Crowns	Top-five weeks
1	Hervey Allen	486	7	40
2	JHJames Hilton	327	11	19
3	Stark Young	310	11	22
4	CMCaroline Miller	279	8	19
5	Sinclair Lewis	148	7	9
6	Robert Graves	130	1	10
7	ISIrving Stone	105	0	11
8	Lion Feuchtwanger	91	2	7
9	Dashiell Hammett	84	3	5
10	Isak Dinesen	83	1	4

Every #1 bestseller of 193412 books reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list

First week at #1	Title	Author	Weeks at #1
Jan 1, 1934	Anthony Adverse	Hervey Allen	7
Jan 15, 1934	The Thin Man	Dashiell Hammett	3
Feb 5, 1934	Work of Art	Sinclair Lewis	7
Apr 2, 1934	The Oppermanns	Lion Feuchtwanger	2
Apr 30, 1934	Seven Gothic Tales	Isak Dinesen	1
May 7, 1934	Tender Is the Night	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1
May 21, 1934	Lamb in His Bosom	Caroline Miller	8
May 28, 1934	Five Silver Daughters	Louis Golding	1
Jul 23, 1934	I, Claudius	Robert Graves	1
Aug 6, 1934	So Red the Rose	Stark Young	17
Dec 3, 1934	Lost Horizon	James Hilton	1
Dec 10, 1934	The Forty Days of Musa Dagh	Franz Werfel	4

Biggest books of 1934Titles that entered the list in 1934, by Book Power

#	Title	Author	Peak	Weeks	Book Power
1	Good-Bye, Mr. Chips	James Hilton	#2	41	391.1
2	So Red the Rose	Stark Young	#1	27	335.7
3	Lamb in His Bosom	Caroline Miller	#1	24	278.4
4	The Forty Days of Musa Dagh	Franz Werfel	#1	20	237.0
5	Lost Horizon	James Hilton	#1	23	205.2
6	Work of Art	Sinclair Lewis	#1	13	148.2
7	I, Claudius	Robert Graves	#1	12	130.0
8	Lust for Life	Irving Stone	#2	11	101.2
9	The Oppermanns	Lion Feuchtwanger	#1	8	90.9
10	The Thin Man	Dashiell Hammett	#1	8	84.5

Author of the Year and the rankings are the ChartReign Power model: the author with the most chart power over the year, not the most #1s. Crowns are weeks crowned Author of the Week. How it works