Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Niven Busch
Charting Jun 28, 1959 → Jul 15, 1962 · 24 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.26%
- week of Oct 18, 1959
- Career Power
- 97
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 85
- October 1958 – November 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 97
- July 1957 – July 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 24
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Aug 2, 1959
- 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 · 97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Street | #7 | 19 | 85.4 | ||
| The San Franciscans | #11 | 5 | 11.7 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Niven Busch's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1958 to November 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris622
- 2Boris Pasternak604
- 3Vladimir Nabokov423
- 4Taylor Caldwell270
- 5D.H. Lawrence246
- 6Eugene Burdick243
- 7William J. Lederer243
- 8John O'Hara198
- 9Paul Gallico187
- 10Patrick Dennis173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.