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Giovanni Guareschi portraitGiovanni Guareschi

Charting Sep 10, 1950Mar 18, 1951 · 27 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.34%
week of Jan 21, 1951
Career Power
130
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
130
March 1950 – March 1951
Peak Five Years
130
March 1946 – March 1951
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
27
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Oct 29, 1950
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 · 130 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
The Little World of Don Camillo#627130.4

At their peak

1950 in books

Giovanni Guareschi's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1950 to March 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Henry Morton Robinson613
  2. 2Mika Waltari372
  3. 3John Hersey337
  4. 4Gwen Bristow332
  5. 5Budd Schulberg242
  6. 6Ernest Hemingway226
  7. 7Frances Parkinson Keyes191
  8. 8Robert Penn Warren175
  9. 9Kathleen Winsor171
  10. 10Thomas B. Costain148

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.