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Samuel H. Adams

Charting Feb 15, 1959Apr 5, 1959 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.54%
week of Apr 5, 1959
Career Power
20
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
20
March 1958 – April 1959
Peak Five Years
20
April 1954 – April 1959
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Mar 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

1 book · 20 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
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At their peak

1958 in books

Samuel H. Adams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1958 to April 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Traver534
  2. 2Vladimir Nabokov356
  3. 3Boris Pasternak347
  4. 4Anya Seton271
  5. 5Edna Ferber266
  6. 6Patrick Dennis256
  7. 7Leon Uris212
  8. 8Jerome Weidman208
  9. 9Mary Renault152
  10. 10John O'Hara143

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.