Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Hugh MacLennan
Charting Mar 15, 1959 → Jul 26, 1959 · 19 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.09%
- week of May 31, 1959
- Career Power
- 64
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 64
- July 1958 – July 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 64
- July 1954 – July 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 19
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of May 10, 1959
- 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 · 64 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 Watch That Ends the Night | #8 | 19 | 63.5 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Hugh MacLennan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1958 to July 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Boris Pasternak548
- 2Vladimir Nabokov478
- 3Leon Uris435
- 4Robert Traver304
- 5Patrick Dennis256
- 6John O'Hara198
- 7Jerome Weidman191
- 8Eugene Burdick169
- 9William J. Lederer169
- 10Paul Gallico166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.