Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Anya Seton
Charting Feb 24, 1946 → Jun 10, 1973 · 147 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 10.67%
- week of Jul 20, 1958
- Career Power
- 1,052
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 296
- October 1957 – October 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 552
- October 1953 – October 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 58
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 147
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Nov 21, 1954
- Comebacks
- 6
- Jan 1949 · Feb 1951 · Oct 1954 · Mar 1958 · Apr 1962 · Feb 1973, after 10 quiet years
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
7 books · 1,052 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Winthrop Woman | #2 | 31 | 296.5 | ||
| Katherine | #2 | 29 | 255.2 | ||
| Green Darkness | #3 | 25 | 197.5 | ||
| Devil Water | #4 | 25 | 137.5 | ||
| The Hearth and Eagle | #7 | 14 | 60.0 | ||
| Foxfire | #6 | 13 | 56.5 | ||
| The Turquoise | #7 | 10 | 48.7 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Anya Seton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1957 to October 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver505
- 2James Gould Cozzens422
- 3Anya Seton297
- 4Edna Ferber266
- 5Thomas B. Costain227
- 6Ayn Rand171
- 7Nevil Shute162
- 8Jerome Weidman159
- 9Helen MacInnes154
- 10Myron S. Kaufmann133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.