Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joseph Kessel
Charting Jul 12, 1959 → Sep 13, 1959 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.47%
- week of Aug 16, 1959
- Career Power
- 22
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 22
- September 1958 – September 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 22
- September 1954 – September 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Jul 26, 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 · 22 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 Lion | #10 | 8 | 21.5 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Joseph Kessel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1958 to September 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Boris Pasternak608
- 2Leon Uris536
- 3Vladimir Nabokov502
- 4Patrick Dennis251
- 5Eugene Burdick207
- 6William J. Lederer207
- 7Taylor Caldwell206
- 8Robert Traver203
- 9John O'Hara198
- 10D.H. Lawrence189
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.