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P.H. Newby

Charting Sep 25, 1955Sep 25, 1955 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.20%
week of Sep 25, 1955
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
October 1954 – September 1955
Peak Five Years
2
October 1950 – September 1955
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.82%
week of Sep 25, 1955
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 · 2 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 Picnic at Sakkara#1611.8

At their peak

1954 in books

P.H. Newby's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1954 to September 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Mac Hyman435
  2. 2Hamilton Basso395
  3. 3Irving Stone394
  4. 4Francoise Sagan346
  5. 5John Phillips Marquand256
  6. 6Anya Seton255
  7. 7Morton Thompson251
  8. 8Robert Ruark247
  9. 9Patrick Dennis231
  10. 10Daphne Du Maurier159

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.