Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Frank Yerby
Charting Feb 24, 1946 → Feb 7, 1960 · 226 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.68%
- week of Aug 3, 1947
- Career Power
- 1,330
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- Peak Year
- 261
- September 1950 – September 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 905
- January 1946 – January 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 67
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 226
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of May 25, 1947
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
14 books · 1,330 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 Vixens | #2 | 29 | 226.6 | ||
| The Foxes of Harrow | #5 | 45 | 193.3 | ||
| The Golden Hawk | #2 | 24 | 179.7 | ||
| Pride's Castle | #3 | 22 | 160.3 | ||
| A Woman Called Fancy | #4 | 22 | 148.6 | ||
| Floodtide | #3 | 20 | 145.4 | ||
| The Saracen Blade | #4 | 22 | 137.9 | ||
| Benton's Row | #9 | 14 | 49.6 | ||
| Fairoaks | #9 | 11 | 38.4 | ||
| The Devil's Laughter | #9 | 10 | 34.3 | ||
| Captain Rebel | #11 | 3 | 7.8 | ||
| The Serpent and the Staff | #13 | 2 | 4.8 | ||
| The Treasure of Pleasant Valley | #16 | 1 | 1.8 | ||
| Jarret's Jade | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |