Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Brooks
Charting Sep 18, 1949 → Oct 2, 1949 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.77%
- week of Oct 2, 1949
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- October 1948 – October 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- October 1944 – October 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Sep 25, 1949
- 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 · 8 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 Big Wheel | #12 | 3 | 8.0 |
At their peak
1948 in books →John Brooks's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1948 to October 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas527
- 2John P. Marquand379
- 3Norman Mailer350
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes344
- 5Irwin Shaw304
- 6Edward Streeter174
- 7Carl Sandburg165
- 8Frank Yerby158
- 9F. Van Wyck Mason153
- 10Tom Lea148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.