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Chaim Potok portraitChaim Potok

Charting May 28, 1967Jan 24, 1982 · 99 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19671982

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Oct 1967) · First crown Oct 1967

Peak Power
11.27%
week of Oct 29, 1967
Career Power
785
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
367
February 1967 – February 1968
Peak Five Years
437
June 1967 – May 1972
Top-five weeks
57
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
99
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Oct 1, 1967
Comebacks
2
Jun 1972 · Jan 1976

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

5 books · 785 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 Chosen#139367.2
My Name Is Asher Lev#326207.6
In the Beginning#520144.0
The Promise#71159.4
The Book of Lights#1336.9

At their peak

1967 in books

Chaim Potok's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1967 to February 1968. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Elia Kazan521
  2. 2Chaim Potok367
  3. 3Thornton Wilder320
  4. 4William Styron248
  5. 5Robert Crichton243
  6. 6Leon Uris238
  7. 7Ira Levin233
  8. 8Mary Stewart214
  9. 9Gore Vidal198
  10. 10Allen Drury176

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.