Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
George Orwell
Charting Sep 29, 1946 → Jan 29, 1956 · 27 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.47%
- week of Sep 11, 1949
- Career Power
- 163
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 139
- November 1948 – November 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 161
- December 1944 – November 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 27
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Jul 24, 1949
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1949
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
3 books · 163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | #3 | 20 | 139.0 | ||
| Animal Farm | #7 | 6 | 22.4 | ||
| Keep the Aspidistra Flying | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1948 in books →George Orwell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1948 to November 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas546
- 2John P. Marquand400
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes344
- 4Norman Mailer250
- 5Irwin Shaw247
- 6Edward Streeter231
- 7Frank Yerby160
- 8John O'Hara158
- 9F. Van Wyck Mason153
- 10Tom Lea150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.