Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mickey Spillane
Charting Nov 9, 1952 → Dec 21, 1952 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.49%
- week of Dec 21, 1952
- Career Power
- 19
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 19
- December 1951 – December 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 19
- January 1948 – December 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Nov 16, 1952
- 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 · 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KISS Me, Deadly | #11 | 7 | 19.3 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Mickey Spillane's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1951 to December 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk677
- 2Daphne Du Maurier375
- 3Nicholas Monsarrat360
- 4Agnes Sligh Turnbull287
- 5Howard Spring284
- 6Thomas B. Costain260
- 7John Steinbeck160
- 8Barnaby Conrad158
- 9Irving Stone158
- 10Frank Yerby138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.