Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Charles E. Mercer
Charting Oct 28, 1956 → Dec 9, 1956 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.37%
- week of Dec 9, 1956
- Career Power
- 17
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 17
- December 1955 – December 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 17
- December 1951 – December 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Nov 11, 1956
- 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 · 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Cade | #13 | 7 | 17.2 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Charles E. Mercer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1955 to December 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor528
- 2MacKinlay Kantor477
- 3Patrick Dennis416
- 4John O'Hara285
- 5William Brinkley275
- 6Herman Wouk225
- 7Simone de Beauvoir212
- 8Pearl S. Buck186
- 9Cameron Hawley174
- 10A. J. Cronin173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.