Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Vladimir Dudintsev
Charting Nov 17, 1957 → Feb 2, 1958 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.25%
- week of Jan 19, 1958
- Career Power
- 20
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 20
- February 1957 – February 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 20
- February 1953 – February 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Nov 17, 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 · 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not by Bread Alone | #11 | 7 | 19.9 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Vladimir Dudintsev's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1957 to February 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious563
- 2Meyer Levin379
- 3Daphne Du Maurier346
- 4James Gould Cozzens306
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes269
- 6Nevil Shute240
- 7Gerald Green203
- 8Richard Mason171
- 9Thomas B. Costain170
- 10Edwin Gilbert166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.