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Garland Roark

Charting Apr 21, 1946Dec 3, 1950 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.36%
week of Jun 30, 1946
Career Power
68
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
66
July 1945 – June 1946
Peak Five Years
68
December 1945 – December 1950
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of May 5, 1946
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

2 books · 68 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
Wake of the Red Witch#61166.4
Rainbow in the Royals#1611.8

At their peak

1945 in books

Garland Roark's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1945 to June 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain449
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier267
  3. 3Adria Locke Langley261
  4. 4Erich Maria Remarque256
  5. 5James Ramsey Ullman245
  6. 6James Hilton204
  7. 7Kathleen Winsor180
  8. 8Sinclair Lewis175
  9. 9Upton Sinclair163
  10. 10Taylor Caldwell162

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.