Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
C. S. Forester
Charting May 15, 1939 → Oct 28, 1962 · 100 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.54%
- week of Jul 10, 1955
- Career Power
- 648
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 130
- August 1954 – August 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 246
- August 1936 – August 1941
- Top-five weeks
- 40
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 100
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jun 30, 1941
- Comebacks
- 4
- Jul 1945 · May 1950 · May 1952 · May 1955
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
12 books · 648 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Good Shepherd | #4 | 18 | 129.5 | ||
| Captain Horatio Hornblower | #4 | 15 | 123.5 | ||
| Commodore Hornblower | #3 | 13 | 105.9 | ||
| The Captain from Connecticut | #2 | 7 | 76.8 | ||
| Lieutenant Hornblower | #5 | 13 | 53.9 | ||
| To the Indies | #4 | 5 | 45.6 | ||
| Hornblower and the Hotspur | #6 | 9 | 31.6 | ||
| Mr.Midshipman Hornblower | #8 | 8 | 31.3 | ||
| Lord Hornblower | #5 | 6 | 31.2 | ||
| The Sky and the Forest | #10 | 3 | 10.6 | ||
| Hornblower and the Atropos | #13 | 2 | 4.6 | ||
| Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies | #12 | 1 | 3.2 |
At their peak
1954 in books →C. S. Forester's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1954 to August 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone424
- 2Mac Hyman400
- 3Hamilton Basso395
- 4Morton Thompson302
- 5Francoise Sagan261
- 6Daphne Du Maurier260
- 7Anya Seton255
- 8John Phillips Marquand248
- 9Robert Ruark169
- 10Ernest Kellogg Gann159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.