Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Win Brooks
Charting Aug 3, 1952 → Aug 31, 1952 · 5 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Shining Tides | #10 | 5 | 14.1 |
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:
- 1Herman Wouk740
- 2Nicholas Monsarrat537
- 3Daphne Du Maurier342
- 4Irving Stone232
- 5James Jones231
- 6John Marquand219
- 7Agnes Sligh Turnbull218
- 8Graham Greene187
- 9Sholem Asch165
- 10Frank Yerby163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.