Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Otis Carney
Charting Nov 17, 1957 → Dec 8, 1957 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.63%
- week of Dec 8, 1957
- Career Power
- 7
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 7
- December 1956 – December 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 7
- December 1952 – December 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Dec 8, 1957
- 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
1 book · 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| When the Bough Breaks | #14 | 3 | 6.6 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Otis Carney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1956 to December 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious654
- 2Meyer Levin445
- 3Daphne Du Maurier346
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes272
- 5Gerald Green203
- 6James Gould Cozzens189
- 7Nevil Shute183
- 8Richard Powell180
- 9Edwin Gilbert166
- 10Rebecca West156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.