Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Geoffrey Jenkins
Charting Mar 6, 1960 → Mar 13, 1960 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.38%
- week of Mar 13, 1960
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- March 1959 – March 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- March 1955 – March 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Mar 6, 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 · 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Twist of Sand | #16 | 2 | 3.6 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Geoffrey Jenkins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1959 to March 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris611
- 2Taylor Caldwell449
- 3Allen Drury396
- 4Boris Pasternak339
- 5D.H. Lawrence251
- 6Eugene Burdick235
- 7William J. Lederer235
- 8James A. Michener205
- 9Vladimir Nabokov181
- 10Paul Gallico165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.