Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Albert Camus
Charting Aug 22, 1948 → Jul 23, 1972 · 35 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.25%
- week of May 5, 1957
- Career Power
- 121
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 58
- January 1957 – January 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 80
- June 1953 – June 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 35
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Apr 7, 1957
- Comebacks
- 1
- Mar 1957, after 8 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
4 books · 121 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 Fall | #7 | 15 | 58.4 | ||
| The Plague | #8 | 9 | 32.3 | ||
| Exile and the Kingdom | #12 | 9 | 21.6 | ||
| A Happy Death | #9 | 2 | 9.0 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Albert Camus's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1957 to January 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious599
- 2Meyer Levin406
- 3Daphne Du Maurier346
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes272
- 5James Gould Cozzens262
- 6Nevil Shute225
- 7Gerald Green203
- 8Richard Powell180
- 9Edwin Gilbert166
- 10Richard Mason163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.