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Annemarie Selinko

Charting Feb 1, 1953Feb 14, 1954 · 54 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    32 crowns

    19531954

    Longest reign 31 weeks (Mar–Oct 1953) · First crown Mar 1953

Peak Power
14.23%
week of Oct 4, 1953
Career Power
625
share-weeks
Crowns
32
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
622
February 1953 – January 1954
Peak Five Years
625
February 1949 – February 1954
Top-five weeks
43
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
54
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 8, 1953
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 · 625 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
Desiree#154625.4

At their peak

1953 in books

Annemarie Selinko's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1953 to January 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Annemarie Selinko622
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain374
  3. 3Leon Uris333
  4. 4Ernest K. Gann319
  5. 5A. J. Cronin313
  6. 6James Hilton203
  7. 7Francis Van Wyck Mason187
  8. 8Frances Parkinson Keyes182
  9. 9John Steinbeck175
  10. 10Alan Paton155

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.