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Herman Wouk

Charting May 11, 1947 → Feb 6, 1994 · 375 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Decade: 1950s
Author of the Year: 1952
1972

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
91 crowns
19471994
Longest reign 33 weeks (Aug 1951 – Mar 1952) · First crown Aug 1951

Peak Power: 14.43%; week of Mar 23, 1952
Career Power: 3,623; share-weeks
Crowns: 91; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 740; August 1951 – August 1952
Peak Five Years: 1,728; April 1951 – April 1956
Top-five weeks: 248; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 375; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Aug 12, 1951
Comebacks: 7; Apr 1951 · Oct 1955 · Jul 1962, after 6 quiet years · May 1965 · Jan 1972, after 6 quiet years · Dec 1978, after 5 quiet years · May 1985, after 5 quiet years

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

9 books · 3,623 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 Caine Mutiny	#1August 1951	123	April 1951 – September 1953	1,342.3	1,342.3
The Winds of War	#1January 1972	65	November 1971 – February 1973	727.8	727.8
War and Remembrance	#1November 1978	61	November 1978 – January 1980	511.1	511.1
Marjorie Morningstar	#1October 1955	37	September 1955 – May 1956	405.1	405.1
Youngblood Hawke	#2June 1962	26	May 1962 – November 1962	250.3	250.3
Don't Stop the Carnival	#4May 1965	26	April 1965 – September 1965	178.6	178.6
Inside, Outside	#3April 1985	24	March 1985 – September 1985	146.7	146.7
The Hope	#5December 1993	9	December 1993 – February 1994	45.2	43.2
Aurora Dawn	#8May 1947	4	May 1947 – June 1947	16.0	16.0

At their peak

1951 in books →

Herman Wouk's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1951 to August 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.