Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
McCready Huston
Charting Sep 23, 1956 → Oct 14, 1956 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.39%
- week of Oct 14, 1956
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- October 1955 – October 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- October 1951 – October 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Sep 23, 1956
- 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 · 4 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 Gates of Brass | #15 | 2 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1955 in books →McCready Huston's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1955 to October 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1MacKinlay Kantor524
- 2Edwin O'Connor448
- 3Patrick Dennis444
- 4Herman Wouk342
- 5John O'Hara289
- 6Sloan Wilson205
- 7Cameron Hawley195
- 8Pearl S. Buck186
- 9Simone de Beauvoir185
- 10William Brinkley165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.