Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joyce Cary
Charting May 8, 1949 → Jul 10, 1955 · 32 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.31%
- week of May 21, 1950
- Career Power
- 149
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 123
- November 1949 – November 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 144
- December 1947 – December 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 32
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Mar 12, 1950
- 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
5 books · 149 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 Horse's Mouth | #4 | 19 | 113.1 | ||
| Prisoner of Grace | #9 | 6 | 19.2 | ||
| A Fearful Joy | #11 | 4 | 9.6 | ||
| Not Honour More | #13 | 2 | 4.8 | ||
| To Be a Pilgrim | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Joyce Cary's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1949 to November 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari501
- 2Henry Morton Robinson457
- 3John Hersey352
- 4Gwen Bristow330
- 5Sholem Asch209
- 6Daphne Du Maurier201
- 7Robert Penn Warren175
- 8Kathleen Winsor171
- 9John O'Hara166
- 10Samuel Shellabarger151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.