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Francoise Sagan portraitFrancoise Sagan

Charting Mar 20, 1955Apr 17, 1960 · 61 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    12 crowns

    19551960

    Longest reign 6 weeks (May–Jun 1955) · First crown May 1955

Peak Power
12.82%
week of Aug 21, 1955
Career Power
587
share-weeks
Crowns
12
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
411
December 1954 – December 1955
Peak Five Years
584
December 1952 – December 1957
Top-five weeks
41
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
61
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 22, 1955
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

4 books · 587 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
Bonjour Tristesse#138411.2
A Certain Smile#219165.7
Those Without Shadows#1237.4
Aimez-Vous Brahms#1412.4

At their peak

1954 in books

Francoise Sagan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1954 to December 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Francoise Sagan411
  2. 2Mac Hyman396
  3. 3Patrick Dennis369
  4. 4Hamilton Basso338
  5. 5Robert Ruark334
  6. 6John Phillips Marquand256
  7. 7Irving Stone240
  8. 8Sloan Wilson187
  9. 9Herman Wouk180
  10. 10Anya Seton167

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.