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Zoe Oldenbourg

Charting Jun 27, 1948Mar 27, 1955 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.26%
week of Aug 1, 1948
Career Power
58
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
29
April 1954 – March 1955
Peak Five Years
29
April 1950 – March 1955
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Jul 25, 1948
Comebacks
1
Feb 1955, after 6 quiet years

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

2 books · 58 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 Cornerstone#101029.2
The World Is Not Enough#7728.6

At their peak

1954 in books

Zoe Oldenbourg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1954 to March 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Morton Thompson547
  2. 2Irving Stone373
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier344
  4. 4Hamilton Basso271
  5. 5Anya Seton230
  6. 6Mac Hyman216
  7. 7Taylor Caldwell210
  8. 8Norah Lofts208
  9. 9John Steinbeck207
  10. 10Frances Parkinson Keyes189

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.