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D.H. Lawrence

Charting May 17, 1959Nov 15, 1959 · 27 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
10.27%
week of Sep 27, 1959
Career Power
251
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
251
November 1958 – November 1959
Peak Five Years
251
November 1954 – November 1959
Top-five weeks
22
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
27
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Jul 12, 1959
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 · 251 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
Lady Chatterly's Lover#227250.6

At their peak

1958 in books

D.H. Lawrence's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1958 to November 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Leon Uris638
  2. 2Boris Pasternak584
  3. 3Vladimir Nabokov394
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell290
  5. 5D.H. Lawrence251
  6. 6Eugene Burdick251
  7. 7William J. Lederer251
  8. 8John O'Hara198
  9. 9Paul Gallico187
  10. 10Allen Drury164

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.