Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ayn Rand
Charting Jul 15, 1945 → Mar 9, 1958 · 52 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.72%
- week of Jan 26, 1958
- Career Power
- 283
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 171
- March 1957 – March 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 171
- March 1953 – March 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 14
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 52
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Dec 1, 1957
- Comebacks
- 1
- Oct 1957, after 11 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
2 books · 283 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlas Shrugged | #3 | 22 | 170.7 | ||
| The Fountainhead | #5 | 30 | 112.2 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Ayn Rand's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1957 to March 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious499
- 2James Gould Cozzens376
- 3Daphne Du Maurier336
- 4Meyer Levin318
- 5Nevil Shute249
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes237
- 7Thomas B. Costain212
- 8Gerald Green188
- 9Richard Mason179
- 10Ayn Rand171
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.