Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Hammond Innes
Charting Dec 16, 1956 → Feb 5, 1961 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.29%
- week of Jan 27, 1957
- Career Power
- 30
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 16
- February 1956 – January 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 30
- February 1956 – February 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Dec 30, 1956
- 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
3 books · 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Wreck of the Mary Deare | #11 | 6 | 16.4 | ||
| The Doomed Oasis | #13 | 5 | 11.1 | ||
| The Land God Gave to Cain | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Hammond Innes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1956 to January 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor568
- 2Patrick Dennis404
- 3MacKinlay Kantor380
- 4William Brinkley362
- 5John O'Hara226
- 6Grace Metalious219
- 7Simone de Beauvoir212
- 8Pearl S. Buck186
- 9A. J. Cronin173
- 10Francoise Sagan166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.