Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Carl Jonas
Charting Feb 10, 1952 → Apr 20, 1952 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.83%
- week of Apr 20, 1952
- Career Power
- 44
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 44
- April 1951 – April 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 44
- May 1947 – April 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Mar 30, 1952
- 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 · 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Selleck | #8 | 11 | 43.6 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Carl Jonas's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1951 to April 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk713
- 2James Jones497
- 3Nicholas Monsarrat420
- 4James A. Michener223
- 5John Marquand219
- 6Irving Stone215
- 7J.D. Salinger191
- 8Graham Greene181
- 9Sholem Asch165
- 10F. Van Wyck Mason164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.