Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Anthony West
Charting Oct 23, 1955 → Dec 18, 1955 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.37%
- week of Dec 4, 1955
- Career Power
- 18
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 18
- December 1954 – December 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 18
- December 1950 – December 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Oct 30, 1955
- 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 · 18 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage | #11 | 7 | 18.5 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Anthony West's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1954 to December 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Francoise Sagan411
- 2Mac Hyman390
- 3Patrick Dennis380
- 4Robert Ruark338
- 5Hamilton Basso325
- 6John Phillips Marquand256
- 7Irving Stone225
- 8Sloan Wilson196
- 9Herman Wouk194
- 10Anya Seton156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.