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Honor Tracy

Charting Aug 19, 1956Aug 27, 1961 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.72%
week of Oct 7, 1956
Career Power
32
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
29
January 1956 – January 1957
Peak Five Years
29
January 1952 – January 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Sep 16, 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

2 books · 32 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 Straight and Narrow Path#101129.3
A Season of Mists#1412.4

At their peak

1956 in books

Honor Tracy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1956 to January 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Edwin O'Connor565
  2. 2Patrick Dennis405
  3. 3MacKinlay Kantor394
  4. 4William Brinkley351
  5. 5John O'Hara237
  6. 6Simone de Beauvoir212
  7. 7Grace Metalious204
  8. 8Pearl S. Buck186
  9. 9A. J. Cronin173
  10. 10Francoise Sagan166

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.