Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Arthur Hailey
Charting Feb 28, 1965 → Jun 10, 1990 · 229 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
53 crowns
19651990Longest reign 18 weeks (Jul–Nov 1968) · First crown Apr 1968
- Peak Power
- 14.12%
- week of Nov 3, 1968
- Career Power
- 2,305
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 53
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 667
- April 1968 – March 1969
- Peak Five Years
- 1,165
- June 1964 – June 1969
- Top-five weeks
- 171
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 229
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Apr 7, 1968
- Comebacks
- 5
- Apr 1968 · Nov 1971 · Apr 1975 · Mar 1979 · Nov 1984, after 5 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
7 books · 2,305 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airport | #1 | 64 | 761.1 | ||
| Hotel | #3 | 46 | 404.2 | ||
| The Moneychangers | #1 | 37 | 403.5 | ||
| Wheels | #1 | 33 | 391.9 | ||
| Overload | #1 | 19 | 177.0 | ||
| Strong Medicine | #3 | 21 | 120.1 | ||
| The Evening News | #5 | 9 | 47.8 |
At their peak
1968 in books →Arthur Hailey's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1968 to March 1969. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Arthur Hailey667
- 2John Updike394
- 3Helen MacInnes370
- 4Taylor Caldwell331
- 5Allen Drury259
- 6John le Carré239
- 7Gore Vidal229
- 8Leon Uris205
- 9Fletcher Knebel183
- 10Charles Portis164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.