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Par Lagerkvist

Charting Jan 6, 1952Mar 30, 1952 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.90%
week of Mar 9, 1952
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
17
April 1951 – March 1952
Peak Five Years
17
April 1947 – March 1952
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Jan 6, 1952
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 · 17 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
Barabbas#14816.5

At their peak

1951 in books

Par Lagerkvist's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1951 to March 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Herman Wouk678
  2. 2James Jones534
  3. 3Nicholas Monsarrat388
  4. 4James A. Michener223
  5. 5John Marquand219
  6. 6Irving Stone197
  7. 7J.D. Salinger191
  8. 8Graham Greene167
  9. 9F. Van Wyck Mason164
  10. 10Sholem Asch163

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.