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Berry Fleming

Charting Dec 9, 1951Dec 9, 1951 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.20%
week of Dec 9, 1951
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
December 1950 – December 1951
Peak Five Years
2
December 1946 – December 1951
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.82%
week of Dec 9, 1951
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 · 2 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Fortune Tellers#1611.8

At their peak

1950 in books

Berry Fleming's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1950 to December 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Jones497
  2. 2Herman Wouk448
  3. 3Frances Parkinson Keyes350
  4. 4Budd Schulberg303
  5. 5James A. Michener223
  6. 6Nicholas Monsarrat194
  7. 7Frank Yerby168
  8. 8F. Van Wyck Mason164
  9. 9J.D. Salinger156
  10. 10Henry Morton Robinson140

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.