Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Harry Kemelman
Charting Aug 21, 1966 → Dec 31, 1978 · 36 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.42%
- week of May 18, 1969
- Career Power
- 168
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 51
- June 1968 – June 1969
- Peak Five Years
- 88
- June 1964 – June 1969
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 36
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Mar 30, 1969
- Comebacks
- 3
- Apr 1969 · Apr 1972 · Apr 1974
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
6 books · 168 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home | #6 | 9 | 51.2 | ||
| Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry | #8 | 8 | 37.2 | ||
| Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red | #6 | 6 | 31.4 | ||
| Monday the Rabbi Took Off | #7 | 5 | 24.3 | ||
| Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out | #12 | 6 | 15.3 | ||
| Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet | #9 | 2 | 9.0 |
At their peak
1968 in books →Harry Kemelman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1968 to June 1969. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Arthur Hailey591
- 2Helen MacInnes486
- 3Taylor Caldwell298
- 4John le Carré296
- 5John Updike286
- 6Allen Drury265
- 7Philip Roth229
- 8Charles Portis164
- 9Cameron Hawley157
- 10Alexander Solzhenitsyn136
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.