Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Igor Gouzenko
Charting Aug 8, 1954 → Jan 23, 1955 · 24 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.19%
- week of Oct 31, 1954
- Career Power
- 102
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 102
- January 1954 – January 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 102
- January 1950 – January 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 24
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Aug 15, 1954
- 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 · 102 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 Fall of a Titan | #6 | 24 | 101.8 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Igor Gouzenko's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1954 to January 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson626
- 2Daphne Du Maurier339
- 3Irving Stone264
- 4Taylor Caldwell210
- 5Norah Lofts208
- 6John Steinbeck207
- 7James A. Michener202
- 8Frances Parkinson Keyes189
- 9Kenneth Dodson180
- 10Samuel Shellabarger177
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.