Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Charles Portis
Charting Jul 21, 1968 → Dec 22, 1968 · 22 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.07%
- week of Oct 20, 1968
- Career Power
- 164
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 164
- December 1967 – December 1968
- Peak Five Years
- 164
- December 1963 – December 1968
- Top-five weeks
- 11
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 22
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Sep 29, 1968
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
1 book · 164 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| True Grit | #3 | 22 | 164.1 |
At their peak
1967 in books →Charles Portis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1967 to December 1968. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Arthur Hailey529
- 2John Updike394
- 3Leon Uris367
- 4William Styron322
- 5Fletcher Knebel288
- 6Taylor Caldwell278
- 7Gore Vidal266
- 8Catherine Marshall237
- 9Helen MacInnes172
- 10Charles Portis164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.