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
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- March 1957
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Jan 9, 1949 | Mar 24, 1957 | 427 | 425 | 2.20% | 1.03% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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 |