Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gunter Grass
Charting Apr 14, 1963 → Jun 7, 1970 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.25%
- week of Jun 30, 1963
- Career Power
- 59
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 50
- July 1962 – June 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 50
- June 1958 – June 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of May 26, 1963
- 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
2 books · 59 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 Tin Drum | #6 | 9 | 49.7 | ||
| Local Anesthetic | #9 | 2 | 9.0 |
At their peak
1962 in books →Gunter Grass's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1962 to June 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Katherine Anne Porter363
- 2J.D. Salinger317
- 3Anne Morrow Lindbergh283
- 4Allen Drury259
- 5Charles W. Bailey II249
- 6Fletcher Knebel249
- 7Richard McKenna228
- 8Irving Wallace218
- 9Herman Wouk202
- 10William Faulkner161
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.