Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert Ruark
Charting May 8, 1955 → Mar 6, 1966 · 108 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 crowns
19551966First crown Jul 1955
- Peak Power
- 10.82%
- week of Sep 18, 1955
- Career Power
- 777
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 2
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 363
- February 1955 – February 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 555
- May 1955 – May 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 44
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 108
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jul 3, 1955
- Comebacks
- 3
- Dec 1959 · Aug 1962 · Dec 1965
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 books · 777 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Something of Value | #1 | 42 | 363.0 | ||
| Poor No More | #3 | 26 | 192.2 | ||
| Uhuru | #4 | 24 | 127.8 | ||
| The Honey Badger | #6 | 16 | 93.9 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Robert Ruark's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1955 to February 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Patrick Dennis461
- 2Francoise Sagan411
- 3Robert Ruark363
- 4Mac Hyman313
- 5Herman Wouk310
- 6John Phillips Marquand256
- 7Sloan Wilson245
- 8Hamilton Basso197
- 9MacKinlay Kantor192
- 10Thomas B. Costain146
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.