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Alberto Moravia

Charting Nov 27, 1949Jul 13, 1958 · 31 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.59%
week of Feb 5, 1950
Career Power
147
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
137
October 1949 – October 1950
Peak Five Years
141
September 1947 – September 1952
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Dec 11, 1949
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

4 books · 147 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
The Woman of Rome#51584.5
Two Adolescents#61152.7
Two Women#1536.0
The Fancy Dress Party#1523.9

At their peak

1949 in books

Alberto Moravia's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1949 to October 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Mika Waltari515
  2. 2Henry Morton Robinson407
  3. 3John Hersey349
  4. 4Gwen Bristow309
  5. 5Sholem Asch253
  6. 6John O'Hara217
  7. 7Daphne Du Maurier201
  8. 8Kathleen Winsor171
  9. 9Robert Penn Warren168
  10. 10Samuel Shellabarger151

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.