Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Charles Bracelen Flood
Charting Oct 25, 1953 → May 2, 1954 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.90%
- week of Apr 11, 1954
- Career Power
- 65
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 65
- May 1953 – May 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 65
- May 1949 – May 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Mar 21, 1954
- 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 · 65 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love Is a Bridge | #9 | 23 | 65.4 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Charles Bracelen Flood's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1953 to May 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Annemarie Selinko465
- 2Ernest K. Gann434
- 3Leon Uris383
- 4A. J. Cronin366
- 5Samuel Shellabarger296
- 6James Hilton222
- 7James A. Michener211
- 8Morton Thompson203
- 9Thomas B. Costain202
- 10Harnett T. Kane164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.