Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sergeanne Golon
Charting Oct 12, 1958 → Jan 18, 1959 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.11%
- week of Dec 14, 1958
- Career Power
- 50
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 50
- January 1958 – January 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 50
- January 1954 – January 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Nov 16, 1958
- 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 · 50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angelique | #7 | 12 | 49.8 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Sergeanne Golon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1958 to January 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver607
- 2Anya Seton297
- 3Edna Ferber266
- 4James Gould Cozzens234
- 5Vladimir Nabokov229
- 6Jerome Weidman208
- 7Patrick Dennis198
- 8Boris Pasternak187
- 9Helen MacInnes154
- 10Mary Renault136
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.