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Win Brooks

Charting Aug 3, 1952Aug 31, 1952 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.23%
week of Aug 31, 1952
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
14
September 1951 – August 1952
Peak Five Years
14
September 1947 – August 1952
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Aug 24, 1952
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 · 14 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
The Shining Tides#10514.1

At their peak

1951 in books

Win Brooks's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1951 to August 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Herman Wouk740
  2. 2Nicholas Monsarrat537
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier342
  4. 4Irving Stone232
  5. 5James Jones231
  6. 6John Marquand219
  7. 7Agnes Sligh Turnbull218
  8. 8Graham Greene187
  9. 9Sholem Asch165
  10. 10Frank Yerby163

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.