Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Santha Rama Rau
Charting May 13, 1956 → Jul 15, 1956 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.85%
- week of Jun 24, 1956
- Career Power
- 30
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 30
- July 1955 – July 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 30
- July 1951 – July 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of May 13, 1956
- 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 · 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remember the House | #9 | 9 | 29.5 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Santha Rama Rau's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1955 to July 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Patrick Dennis528
- 2MacKinlay Kantor441
- 3Herman Wouk405
- 4Sloan Wilson311
- 5John O'Hara286
- 6Edwin O'Connor285
- 7Robert Ruark232
- 8Francoise Sagan194
- 9Cameron Hawley193
- 10Thomas B. Costain154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.