Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Nicholas Monsarrat
Charting Oct 21, 1945 → Dec 10, 1961 · 109 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 12.03%
- week of Feb 24, 1952
- Career Power
- 816
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 545
- August 1951 – August 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 582
- October 1948 – October 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 53
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 109
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Sep 30, 1951
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 1956
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
6 books · 816 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 Cruel Sea | #2 | 61 | 578.9 | ||
| The Tribe That Lost Its Head | #3 | 20 | 156.0 | ||
| The Nylon Pirates | #10 | 15 | 41.9 | ||
| The White Rajah | #9 | 8 | 26.8 | ||
| Leave Cancelled | #13 | 4 | 9.1 | ||
| The Story of Esther Costello | #12 | 1 | 3.2 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Nicholas Monsarrat's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1951 to August 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk740
- 2Nicholas Monsarrat545
- 3Daphne Du Maurier327
- 4James Jones256
- 5Irving Stone232
- 6John Marquand219
- 7Agnes Sligh Turnbull201
- 8Graham Greene187
- 9Frank Yerby168
- 10J.D. Salinger167
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.