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Han Suyin

Charting Nov 9, 1958Feb 8, 1959 · 12 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Mountain Is Young#111231.0

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:

  1. 1Robert Traver615
  2. 2Anya Seton297
  3. 3Vladimir Nabokov267
  4. 4Edna Ferber266
  5. 5Boris Pasternak231
  6. 6Patrick Dennis220
  7. 7Jerome Weidman208
  8. 8James Gould Cozzens190
  9. 9Helen MacInnes154
  10. 10Mary Renault149

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.