Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
L.P. Hartley
Charting Sep 26, 1954 → Oct 17, 1954 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.51%
- week of Oct 17, 1954
- Career Power
- 6
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- October 1953 – October 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 6
- October 1949 – October 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Sep 26, 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 · 6 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 Go-Between | #12 | 2 | 5.6 |
At their peak
1953 in books →L.P. Hartley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1953 to October 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson526
- 2Samuel Shellabarger315
- 3Ernest K. Gann269
- 4A. J. Cronin251
- 5Daphne Du Maurier227
- 6Norah Lofts208
- 7James A. Michener204
- 8Taylor Caldwell192
- 9Kenneth Dodson176
- 10James Hilton174
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.