Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Geoffrey Household
Charting Jul 24, 1960 → Sep 11, 1960 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.83%
- week of Aug 28, 1960
- Career Power
- 24
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 24
- September 1959 – September 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 24
- September 1955 – September 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Aug 7, 1960
- 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 · 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watcher in the Shadows | #9 | 7 | 24.0 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Geoffrey Household's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1959 to September 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Allen Drury708
- 2James A. Michener561
- 3Taylor Caldwell304
- 4Leon Uris264
- 5Marcia Davenport228
- 6Morris L. West202
- 7Robert Ruark192
- 8Guiseppe di Lampedusa186
- 9John Hersey167
- 10Cameron Hawley142
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.