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Graham Greene

Charting Mar 20, 1933 → Oct 10, 1982 · 182 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 crowns
19331982
Longest reign 2 weeks (Nov–Dec 1973) · First crown Nov 1973

Peak Power: 10.86%; week of Mar 10, 1974
Career Power: 1,350; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 296; April 1973 – April 1974
Peak Five Years: 482; April 1969 – April 1974
Top-five weeks: 85; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 182; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Nov 25, 1973
Comebacks: 8; Aug 1948, after 15 quiet years · Dec 1951 · Apr 1956 · Mar 1961, after 5 quiet years · Mar 1966 · Mar 1970 · Oct 1973 · Apr 1978

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

12 books · 1,350 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 Honorary Consul	#1November 1973	27	October 1973 – April 1974	295.8	295.8
A Burnt-Out Case	#3April 1961	26	February 1961 – September 1961	191.5	191.5
The End of the Affair	#4November 1951	26	November 1951 – May 1952	187.1	187.1
Travels with My Aunt	#2March 1970	22	February 1970 – June 1970	186.1	186.1
The Human Factor	#3April 1978	20	March 1978 – August 1978	140.4	140.4
The Comedians	#5March 1966	18	February 1966 – June 1966	112.1	112.1
The Heart of the Matter	#3August 1948	16	August 1948 – November 1948	102.6	102.6
The Quiet American	#4April 1956	16	March 1956 – July 1956	94.2	94.2
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party	#11June 1980	4	June 1980 – July 1980	12.7	12.7
Orient Express	#2March 1933	1	March 1933	12.7	12.7
Our Man in Havana	#11November 1958	5	November 1958 – December 1958	12.6	12.6
Monsignor Quixote	#13October 1982	1	October 1982	2.8	2.8

At their peak

1973 in books →

Graham Greene's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1973 to April 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.