Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Romain Gary
Charting Feb 16, 1958 → May 17, 1959 · 27 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.47%
- week of Apr 12, 1959
- Career Power
- 120
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 86
- May 1958 – May 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 120
- May 1954 – May 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 27
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Feb 22, 1959
- 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
2 books · 120 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lady L. | #6 | 17 | 85.9 | ||
| The Roots of Heaven | #9 | 10 | 34.3 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Romain Gary's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1958 to May 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver450
- 2Boris Pasternak432
- 3Vladimir Nabokov411
- 4Leon Uris289
- 5Patrick Dennis256
- 6Edna Ferber222
- 7Jerome Weidman208
- 8Anya Seton195
- 9John O'Hara184
- 10Mary Renault152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.