Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kenneth Dodson
Charting Mar 21, 1954 → Oct 31, 1954 · 30 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.58%
- week of Jun 27, 1954
- Career Power
- 180
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 180
- November 1953 – October 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 180
- November 1949 – October 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 30
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Apr 18, 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 · 180 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Away All Boats | #3 | 30 | 179.8 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Kenneth Dodson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1953 to October 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson548
- 2Samuel Shellabarger315
- 3Ernest K. Gann256
- 4Daphne Du Maurier252
- 5A. J. Cronin223
- 6Norah Lofts208
- 7James A. Michener202
- 8Taylor Caldwell199
- 9John Steinbeck184
- 10Kenneth Dodson180
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.