Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Han Suyin
Charting Nov 9, 1958 → Feb 8, 1959 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.84%
- week of Feb 1, 1959
- Career Power
- 31
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 31
- February 1958 – February 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 31
- February 1954 – February 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Dec 7, 1958
- 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 · 31 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 Mountain Is Young | #11 | 12 | 31.0 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Han Suyin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1958 to February 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver615
- 2Anya Seton297
- 3Vladimir Nabokov267
- 4Edna Ferber266
- 5Boris Pasternak231
- 6Patrick Dennis220
- 7Jerome Weidman208
- 8James Gould Cozzens190
- 9Helen MacInnes154
- 10Mary Renault149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.