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Charles Mercer

Charting Feb 21, 1960Feb 21, 1960 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.20%
week of Feb 21, 1960
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
March 1959 – February 1960
Peak Five Years
2
February 1955 – February 1960
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.82%
week of Feb 21, 1960
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 · 2 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
Enough Good Men#1611.8

At their peak

1959 in books

Charles Mercer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1959 to February 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Leon Uris634
  2. 2Taylor Caldwell426
  3. 3Boris Pasternak382
  4. 4Allen Drury358
  5. 5D.H. Lawrence251
  6. 6Eugene Burdick244
  7. 7William J. Lederer244
  8. 8Vladimir Nabokov215
  9. 9Paul Gallico186
  10. 10James A. Michener162

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.