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Tom Chamales

Charting Apr 14, 1957Apr 14, 1957 · 1 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Never So Few#1611.8

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:

  1. 1Edwin O'Connor485
  2. 2William Brinkley429
  3. 3Grace Metalious371
  4. 4Patrick Dennis350
  5. 5MacKinlay Kantor232
  6. 6Simone de Beauvoir212
  7. 7Meyer Levin203
  8. 8Pearl S. Buck184
  9. 9A. J. Cronin173
  10. 10Francoise Sagan166

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.