Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Howard Breslin
Charting Jan 11, 1948 → Jan 11, 1948 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.30%
- week of Jan 11, 1948
- Career Power
- 3
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 3
- January 1947 – January 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 3
- January 1943 – January 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Jan 11, 1948
- 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 · 3 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 Tamarack Tree | #13 | 1 | 2.8 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Howard Breslin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1947 to January 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Laura Z. Hobson393
- 2Russell Janney316
- 3Thomas B. Costain304
- 4Kenneth Roberts299
- 5Frank Yerby231
- 6Ben Ames Williams215
- 7Willard Motley199
- 8Sinclair Lewis193
- 9John Steinbeck174
- 10John P. Marquand149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.