Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Arthur Koestler
Charting Nov 24, 1946 → Jun 3, 1951 · 27 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.74%
- week of Feb 16, 1947
- Career Power
- 160
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 94
- March 1946 – March 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 160
- June 1946 – June 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 27
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Dec 8, 1946
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1951
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
2 books · 160 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thieves in the Night | #5 | 16 | 94.0 | ||
| The Age of Longing | #5 | 11 | 65.6 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Arthur Koestler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1946 to March 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Taylor Caldwell451
- 2Frederic Wakeman369
- 3Russell Janney242
- 4Erich Maria Remarque223
- 5John P. Marquand214
- 6Sholem Asch205
- 7Mary Jane Ward195
- 8Frank Yerby184
- 9Daphne Du Maurier175
- 10Margery Sharp152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.