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Giovannino Guareschi portraitGiovannino Guareschi

Charting Aug 31, 1952Sep 19, 1954 · 33 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.29%
week of Jan 11, 1953
Career Power
137
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
114
February 1952 – February 1953
Peak Five Years
137
September 1949 – September 1954
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Sep 28, 1952
Comebacks
1
Sep 1954

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 · 137 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
Don Camillo and His Flock#625114.2
Don Camillo's Dilemma#11822.5

At their peak

1952 in books

Giovannino Guareschi's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1952 to February 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Herman Wouk626
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier371
  3. 3Thomas B. Costain371
  4. 4Howard Spring297
  5. 5Agnes Sligh Turnbull291
  6. 6John Steinbeck267
  7. 7Nicholas Monsarrat259
  8. 8Edna Ferber194
  9. 9Ernest Hemingway167
  10. 10Barnaby Conrad158

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.