Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Charles Wertenbaker
Charting Mar 7, 1954 → Apr 11, 1954 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.17%
- week of Apr 11, 1954
- Career Power
- 14
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 14
- April 1953 – April 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 14
- April 1949 – April 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Apr 4, 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 · 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Death of Kings | #12 | 6 | 13.7 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Charles Wertenbaker's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1953 to April 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Annemarie Selinko509
- 2Ernest K. Gann415
- 3Leon Uris377
- 4A. J. Cronin366
- 5Samuel Shellabarger273
- 6Thomas B. Costain240
- 7James Hilton222
- 8James A. Michener174
- 9Morton Thompson160
- 10Alan Paton157
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.