Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Miss Read
Charting Mar 29, 1959 → Feb 28, 1960 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.55%
- week of Feb 28, 1960
- Career Power
- 9
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- March 1959 – February 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- February 1955 – February 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Jan 31, 1960
- 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
2 books · 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thrush Green | #13 | 3 | 6.9 | ||
| Storm in the Village | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Miss Read's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1959 to February 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris628
- 2Taylor Caldwell435
- 3Allen Drury371
- 4Boris Pasternak368
- 5D.H. Lawrence251
- 6Eugene Burdick241
- 7William J. Lederer241
- 8Vladimir Nabokov203
- 9Paul Gallico180
- 10James A. Michener176
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.