Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Norah Lofts
Charting Sep 21, 1947 → Nov 25, 1962 · 53 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 9.15%
- week of Jul 4, 1954
- Career Power
- 273
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 208
- October 1953 – October 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 234
- February 1953 – February 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 53
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of May 2, 1954
- 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
8 books · 273 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bless This House | #2 | 25 | 207.7 | ||
| The Town House | #11 | 6 | 16.0 | ||
| Afternoon of an Autocrat | #13 | 7 | 15.7 | ||
| The House at Old Vine | #12 | 6 | 14.6 | ||
| Scent of Cloves | #13 | 5 | 10.9 | ||
| Silver Nutmeg | #14 | 2 | 4.2 | ||
| The Lute Player | #16 | 1 | 1.8 | ||
| The House at Sunset | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Norah Lofts's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1953 to October 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson504
- 2Samuel Shellabarger315
- 3Ernest K. Gann283
- 4A. J. Cronin278
- 5James A. Michener212
- 6Norah Lofts208
- 7Daphne Du Maurier200
- 8James Hilton193
- 9Taylor Caldwell180
- 10Kenneth Dodson173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.