Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Harper Lee
Charting Aug 7, 1960 → Apr 10, 2016 · 131 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 crowns
19602016Longest reign 6 weeks (Aug–Sep 2015) · First crown Aug 2015
- Peak Power
- 12.26%
- week of Oct 8, 1961
- Career Power
- 1,152
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 6
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 584
- February 1961 – February 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 929
- June 1957 – June 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 87
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 131
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Aug 2, 2015
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 2015, after 53 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 1,152 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To Kill a Mockingbird | #2 | 98 | 929.2 | ||
| Go Set a Watchman | #1 | 33 | 222.8 |
At their peak
1961 in books →Harper Lee's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1961 to February 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone627
- 2Harper Lee584
- 3J.D. Salinger293
- 4Andre Schwarz-Bart270
- 5Leon Uris251
- 6Harold Robbins248
- 7James A. Michener220
- 8Edwin O'Connor192
- 9Graham Greene191
- 10Henry Miller146
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.