Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Tom Chamales
Charting Apr 14, 1957 → Apr 14, 1957 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Apr 14, 1957
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- April 1956 – April 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- April 1952 – April 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Apr 14, 1957
- 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never So Few | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Tom Chamales's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1956 to April 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor485
- 2William Brinkley429
- 3Grace Metalious371
- 4Patrick Dennis350
- 5MacKinlay Kantor232
- 6Simone de Beauvoir212
- 7Meyer Levin203
- 8Pearl S. Buck184
- 9A. J. Cronin173
- 10Francoise Sagan166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.