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Guiseppe di Lampedusa

Charting May 15, 1960Jan 29, 1961 · 38 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
10.52%
week of Nov 20, 1960
Career Power
345
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
345
February 1960 – January 1961
Peak Five Years
345
January 1956 – January 1961
Top-five weeks
27
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
38
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Jul 10, 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 · 345 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Leopard#238344.9

At their peak

1960 in books

Guiseppe di Lampedusa's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1960 to January 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener731
  2. 2Allen Drury680
  3. 3Guiseppe di Lampedusa345
  4. 4Marcia Davenport230
  5. 5Harper Lee222
  6. 6Irving Wallace213
  7. 7Mary Ellen Chase200
  8. 8John O'Hara181
  9. 9Taylor Caldwell176
  10. 10Cameron Hawley142

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.