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Boris Pasternak portraitBoris Pasternak

Charting Sep 28, 1958Nov 15, 1959 · 57 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    24 crowns

    19581959

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Doctor Zhivago#157642.0

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:

  1. 1Boris Pasternak627
  2. 2Leon Uris578
  3. 3Vladimir Nabokov481
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell231
  5. 5Eugene Burdick222
  6. 6William J. Lederer222
  7. 7Patrick Dennis222
  8. 8D.H. Lawrence221
  9. 9John O'Hara198
  10. 10Paul Gallico186

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.