Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joseph Hayes
Charting Apr 4, 1954 → Feb 24, 1957 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.05%
- week of Jun 6, 1954
- Career Power
- 32
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 31
- June 1953 – June 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 32
- March 1952 – February 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of May 9, 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
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Desperate Hours | #9 | 10 | 31.1 | ||
| Bon Voyagewith Marrijane Hayes | #15 | 1 | 1.0 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Joseph Hayes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1953 to June 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ernest K. Gann437
- 2Annemarie Selinko393
- 3Leon Uris367
- 4A. J. Cronin366
- 5Samuel Shellabarger315
- 6Morton Thompson276
- 7James A. Michener259
- 8James Hilton222
- 9Harnett T. Kane164
- 10Alan Paton157
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.