Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Barnaby Conrad
Charting Jul 13, 1952 → Dec 7, 1952 · 21 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.12%
- week of Oct 12, 1952
- Career Power
- 158
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 158
- December 1951 – December 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 158
- December 1947 – December 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Aug 3, 1952
- 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 · 158 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matador | #3 | 21 | 157.9 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Barnaby Conrad's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1951 to December 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk690
- 2Nicholas Monsarrat385
- 3Daphne Du Maurier375
- 4Agnes Sligh Turnbull285
- 5Howard Spring276
- 6Thomas B. Costain235
- 7Irving Stone175
- 8Barnaby Conrad158
- 9Graham Greene152
- 10Frank Yerby138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.