Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Simone de Beauvoir
Charting Jun 10, 1956 → Nov 25, 1956 · 24 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.89%
- week of Oct 14, 1956
- Career Power
- 212
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 212
- December 1955 – November 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 212
- December 1951 – November 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 17
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 24
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Jul 8, 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 · 212 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mandarins | #3 | 24 | 211.6 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Simone de Beauvoir's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1955 to November 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor512
- 2MacKinlay Kantor501
- 3Patrick Dennis419
- 4John O'Hara289
- 5Herman Wouk255
- 6William Brinkley250
- 7Simone de Beauvoir212
- 8Cameron Hawley190
- 9Pearl S. Buck186
- 10A. J. Cronin173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.