Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
David Garnett
Charting Feb 19, 1956 → Apr 8, 1956 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.83%
- week of Apr 1, 1956
- Career Power
- 25
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 25
- April 1955 – April 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 25
- April 1951 – April 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Mar 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 · 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspects of Love | #10 | 8 | 24.7 |
At their peak
1955 in books →David Garnett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1955 to April 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Patrick Dennis516
- 2Francoise Sagan381
- 3Herman Wouk377
- 4Robert Ruark363
- 5MacKinlay Kantor285
- 6Sloan Wilson268
- 7Mac Hyman243
- 8John Phillips Marquand196
- 9John O'Hara180
- 10Cameron Hawley166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.