Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Christopher Isherwood
Charting Jul 4, 1954 → Aug 8, 1954 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.70%
- week of Jul 18, 1954
- Career Power
- 9
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- August 1953 – August 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- August 1949 – August 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Jul 11, 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 · 9 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 World in the Evening | #13 | 4 | 9.1 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Christopher Isherwood's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1953 to August 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson403
- 2A. J. Cronin364
- 3Ernest K. Gann361
- 4Samuel Shellabarger315
- 5James A. Michener266
- 6Annemarie Selinko262
- 7Leon Uris258
- 8James Hilton222
- 9Norah Lofts181
- 10Harnett T. Kane164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.