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Nicholas Monsarrat portraitNicholas Monsarrat

Charting Oct 21, 1945Dec 10, 1961 · 109 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Cruel Sea#261578.9
The Tribe That Lost Its Head#320156.0
The Nylon Pirates#101541.9
The White Rajah#9826.8
Leave Cancelled#1349.1
The Story of Esther Costello#1213.2

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:

  1. 1Herman Wouk740
  2. 2Nicholas Monsarrat545
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier327
  4. 4James Jones256
  5. 5Irving Stone232
  6. 6John Marquand219
  7. 7Agnes Sligh Turnbull201
  8. 8Graham Greene187
  9. 9Frank Yerby168
  10. 10J.D. Salinger167

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.