Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Chaim Potok
Charting May 28, 1967 → Jan 24, 1982 · 99 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 crowns
19671982Longest 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Chosen | #1 | 39 | 367.2 | ||
| My Name Is Asher Lev | #3 | 26 | 207.6 | ||
| In the Beginning | #5 | 20 | 144.0 | ||
| The Promise | #7 | 11 | 59.4 | ||
| The Book of Lights | #13 | 3 | 6.9 |
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:
- 1Elia Kazan521
- 2Chaim Potok367
- 3Thornton Wilder320
- 4William Styron248
- 5Robert Crichton243
- 6Leon Uris238
- 7Ira Levin233
- 8Mary Stewart214
- 9Gore Vidal198
- 10Allen Drury176
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.