Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Thomas B. Costain
Charting Sep 16, 1945 → Mar 13, 1960 · 243 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
44 crowns
19451960Longest reign 17 weeks (Oct 1945 – Jan 1946) · First crown Oct 1945
- Peak Power
- 13.26%
- week of Mar 1, 1953
- Career Power
- 2,284
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 44
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 648
- August 1952 – August 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 994
- January 1949 – January 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 156
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 243
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Oct 7, 1945
- Comebacks
- 6
- Aug 1947 · Dec 1950 · Sep 1952 · Nov 1955 · Nov 1957 · Jan 1960
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 books · 2,284 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 Silver Chalice | #1 | 68 | 702.7 | ||
| The Black Rose | #1 | 39 | 449.5 | ||
| The Moneyman | #1 | 31 | 347.9 | ||
| Below the Salt | #3 | 26 | 227.5 | ||
| The Tontine | #3 | 23 | 154.0 | ||
| Son of a Hundred Kings | #2 | 19 | 147.8 | ||
| High Towers | #3 | 18 | 145.5 | ||
| The Darkness and the Dawn | #4 | 19 | 109.2 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Thomas B. Costain's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1952 to August 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain648
- 2Herman Wouk406
- 3John Steinbeck401
- 4Annemarie Selinko363
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes270
- 6Edna Ferber235
- 7Daphne Du Maurier191
- 8Howard Spring183
- 9Francis Van Wyck Mason177
- 10Ernest Hemingway175
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.