Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Boris Pasternak
Charting Sep 28, 1958 → Nov 15, 1959 · 57 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
24 crowns
19581959Longest reign 24 weeks (Nov 1958 – May 1959) · First crown Nov 1958
- Peak Power
- 13.98%
- week of May 10, 1959
- Career Power
- 642
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 24
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 627
- September 1958 – October 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 642
- November 1954 – November 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 49
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 57
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Nov 16, 1958
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 book · 642 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Zhivago | #1 | 57 | 642.0 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Boris Pasternak's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1958 to October 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Boris Pasternak627
- 2Leon Uris578
- 3Vladimir Nabokov481
- 4Taylor Caldwell231
- 5Eugene Burdick222
- 6William J. Lederer222
- 7Patrick Dennis222
- 8D.H. Lawrence221
- 9John O'Hara198
- 10Paul Gallico186
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.