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C.Y. Lee

Charting Jun 30, 1957Jun 15, 1958 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.94%
week of Sep 29, 1957
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
25
June 1957 – June 1958
Peak Five Years
25
June 1953 – June 1958
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of May 18, 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

2 books · 25 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 Flower Drum Song#14816.8
Lover's Point#1338.3

At their peak

1957 in books

C.Y. Lee's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1957 to June 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Gould Cozzens481
  2. 2Grace Metalious322
  3. 3Robert Traver278
  4. 4Nevil Shute249
  5. 5Thomas B. Costain227
  6. 6Richard Mason179
  7. 7Anya Seton174
  8. 8Ayn Rand171
  9. 9Meyer Levin169
  10. 10Edwin Gilbert145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.